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I was watching You Tube Videos & heard the word spotting, as in 1st spotting/2nd spotting etc. Does this mean the train is too long for the platform & the train pulls up in order to load passengers?
I wouldn't call that an extra spot, it is fuel stop at the fuel pad just east of the station. The Southwest Chief does something similar at Argentine Yard, and I wouldn't consider that to be an extra spot at KC, the fuel pad there is just further from the KC station than the fuel pad at Havre.Another reason for an extra stop at a station...refueling the locomotives. Had that happen a couple weeks ago on #7/27 at Havre, MT. We stopped for perhaps 10 minutes for refueling then moved slowly into the station platforms.
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