NS Stacks, CSX Freight and Grain Trains, Amtrak 19 and Watching the Sand Plant Operate

Normally we don't go out train watching during the week to avoid downtown traffic, but the past couple weeks it's been rainy and cloudy every weekend and this is the first sunny day in a while so here we are. The first train we see is a CSX freight pulling out of the yard while an NS stack is pulling into Inman yard. The CSX freight isn't ready to leave yet and stops before the bridge. We watch the CSX freight back up as the NS stack pulls forward. Way down at Jefferson street we see a single NS train sitting. Since it's mid week we are here when the local sand plant is operating, so while we wait for more trains we'll keep an eye on their operations and hopefully catch the track mobile moving some cars. Next comes Amtrak 19 running a little late with two GE's up front, the first in the newer blue scheme. We watch it head around the bend at Inman. So back to the sand plant. Next we see the NS train that was sitting down at Inman, turns out it was a stack. And back over to the sand plant. Every time they move the cars along comes a train and we miss it. Next we see a CSX grain train approaching slow with a YN2 second, it stops a good ways back from the signal, for a crew change. Still watching the sand plant. Yes, we catch them this time. Slow moving but at least it moves. Then along comes a set of CSX light power out of the yard, but it can't go out onto the main since the grain train is in the way. It won't be tool long, the new CSX crew has arrived.