Question for MC...

…or anyone else who may know.

I’m familiar with the Georgetown Railroad’s Dump Train, which consists of ten or twelve connected cars and an unloading conveyor running underneath all of them.

Today I saw something slightly different: it looked like a Dump Train, but there were only two “bins” per section(instead of four, I think), and the sections were articulated in some locations. Is this a new refinement of the Dump Train, or somebody else’s ripoff of the idea? Unfortunately, I was passing underneath it when I saw it–couldn’t get a reporting mark and number–and couldn’t wait around in the heat for it to get to the next good place to see it.

Slot Train? (no conveyor underneath)…Have heard, but not seen that Herzog is playing with an enlarged version of an articulated doublestack well car like their self propelled 170/17000 series which is now on UP’s Moffat Sub in Glenwood Canyon cleaning ditches and dumping ties.

No, I would have to say that it did have a conveyor belt, from what I saw. These cars were not like the “Slot Machine”, which is basically an endless gon (I’ve seen that). They had sloping-sided bins mounted high. I couldn’t get a number. Herzog? Maybe. I know we have used their high-speed ballast trains in the past.