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Welcome to the M&D Snow Hill Line Job Description Page!!
Below is a line description of the Snow Hill Line, as well as a description of it's local operations.

Usually, the Maryland & Delaware crew will begin by running north to the Frankford interchange with NS, pick up their cars, and deliver them to the required destinations. Short trains of a few feed cars will be run to Perdue in Bishop, as well as unit train to Bishop, which are spotted eight cars at a time until the train is unloaded. Stone trains of 25 cars, run about once a week during the best stone summer months, will be operated to Kary Asphalt in Bishop where they'll be dumped one car at a time until done. The best photo ops for a railfan will be Snow Hill-bound Tyson unit trains, usually about 50 cars in length and running the entire length of the line. These will be operated two to three times a month, with loads going down one day and empties coming back on the third day (So down Monday, back Wednesday). In the afternoon, or after all switching is done, they’ll pull all the interchange cars north to Selbyville where they will run around them north of town and shove them north to Frankford for NS. The later hours of the day will usually see the engine/s returning lite to Selbyville.

A good indication of a run will be 50 loads of grain sitting south of Frankford (make sure you can tell loads from empties), or loaded STLX or PFMX hoppers sitting downtown.

However, much like the traffic levels on this line, the operations are very unpredictable. The day may see the crew run lite to another place on the line (such as Bishop of Snow Hill) and switch out empties for interchange with NS. Any number of possibilities exist. The best bet for any railfan is to be right at the engine house at 06:30. Crews are friendly, and will usually tell you exactly what their day will entail.
 
 

Current engine assignments on the Snow Hill Line are CF7’s 2630 and 2632. Though there will usually only be one operating, it is possible to see the pair MU’ed to run grain trains to Tyson’s or Perdue in Bishop.

All radio communications are done on 160.695mhz.
 
 

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