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An Operating session on Tom Wilson’s Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR
Great stuff, guys. One comment: a slag train would ALWAYS have idler cars between hot slag pots and locos/cabooses. Usually they’d use the most beat up old flats or gons. These idlers would protect the crews from splashed slag. Then, on the way back, they would pass through a “lime shop” where the empty pots would get a coating of white lime to keep the next load from sticking.
I thought the same thing but of have a prototype train going to Browns Dump on the Union RR with no idler car,
Tom Wilson