| By: | Alan Page |
| Dates: | 1/3/2016 - 7/10/2016 |
| Album Info: | From the fall of 2014 through May, 2015, the Tyrone ballast trains have been handled by EMD SD50-2’s and SD40-2’s with an occasional visit by a GP40-2 and a lone B40-8. However, at the start of 2016, ES40DC's 5214 and 5340 briefly ended the EMD only ballast workers with their layover on January 3. On March 13, though, it was back to almost all EMD with SD70MAC 4782, SD40-2 8060, and ES40DC 5227 laying over with their ballast train. Handling the ballast chores on April 26, 2016 was lone GP40-2 6986 and mate. By May 11th, the SD50-2's returned to Tyrone with a layover led by ex-SBD units 8503 and 8517. In July, a C40-8W joined SD70M 4525 with a ballast train layover.
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