It's been over 24 hours since the Plummer Turn left Spokane with a whopping 84 cars. ("Normal" is somewhere in the 20s). I haven't been able to track down any info since then. There was a train-caused fire adjacent to the line on Monday, so it's possible that they didn't run since then, but on top of the regular traffic of centerbeam flats and a few box cars, the train also contained 2 large blocks of tank cars--about 50 in total. Does anybody know where these are going (I'm assuming for storage)? They blew right through Manito (junction with the Fairfield Industrial Lead (Branch) and the site of a siding where centerbeams sometimes get stored) without stopping. I didn't follow as far as Mozart Siding (another location where stuff sometimes gets stashed) to see if anything got left there or Worley (where there is a long double-ended industrial spur). The next thing is Plummer--and the STMA RR interchange. Did the St. Maries maybe take the cars to stash out on the unused Branch south of their namesake town?

Thanks to anybody who knows. There are a few of us around here who are interested.