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Midnight Boxcar on a Dead Spur: Who Sneaked MRWX 7NB4?

Midnight Boxcar on a Dead Spur: Who Sneaked MRWX 7NB4?

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Midnight Boxcar on a Dead Spur: Who Sneaked MRWX 7NB4?

A rusted boxcar from a bankrupt railroad sat on a track that was officially dead for ten years, discovered at 11:15 PM by a county road grader operator whose beacon illuminated the reporting mark MRWX 7NB4. The car came from a liquidation lot ninety miles away, the spur’s welded switch had been deliberately compromised, and the terminal manager had a brother-in-law seeking to redevelop the exact corridor-so who moved the car and why does it expose the people meant to keep the tracks safe?

In this episode, we follow the timeline that links a salvage broker, a terminal manager with a family connection to a developer, a veteran yard coordinator who first raised alarms, and a former maintenance supervisor who secretly reopened a welded switch; can those intersections explain how a dead spur suddenly held a living freight car?

Person: Michael Walker
Date: September 11, 2014 at 11:15 PM
Location: Sutton Spur beside Sutton Creek, Track Nine, Millhaven Yard
Person: Jessica Stein, senior yard operations coordinator, 22 years at Millhaven
Person: Don Pryce, former Morrow-Rexford maintenance supervisor

- The Sutton Spur had been out of service since 2004 and was described as dead for ten years.
- The welded switch connecting Track Nine to the main yard had its throw bar removed and was later cut at the base with an angle grinder.
- Michael Walker discovered the dark green boxcar MRWX 7NB4 while operating a county road grader at 11:15 PM.
- Tom Weidman acquired twelve former Morrow-Rexford Railroad cars in 2008 and last walked his inventory in June 2014 without noticing any missing units.
- Ron Siebert, Millhaven terminal manager for eleven years, knew since spring 2014 about a July 2014 land-use proposal by his brother-in-law Brian Colter’s LLC that cited the Sutton Spur as decommissioned.

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