The crew starts at Westport. You see the yard switcher pulls the string for the turn. This are two blocks, one - from the coal hopper to the TOFC car - for Third Street District and the other - from the SOO gon to the blue box car - for Harbor District.
The yard switcher brings the caboose to the rear end.
Here’re the car cards for the train. You see the engine card, it comes under the stack. and the caboose card.When the conducter has its papers and the clearance the train departes.
As usual, Wolfgang, excellent modeling and a great photo tour as well.
Would I ever have loved an invitation to run a switching turn on your layout (just a compliment, not a brazen attempt to cadge an invitation [:D]).
So, do the same engine switch the Third Street district industries on the way back, or will that cut that was set out at the Third Street be handled by another switching job?
Btw - just interested in your switching: how come that the dark blue boxcar, which according to the pics of the waybills shown earlier in the thread was billed to Connery’s Cannery, was left on the harbor siding, while the tank car was spotted by your engine at the cannery - looks like there would have been room to spot the box as well ?
You have looked very carefully. Somehow I’ve lost the car card from the PR&W 3329 box car during the photo session. So I spotted it somewhere. [:(!]
If you look at the picture from Third Street with the arriving train you can see behind the train the 25-ton at the spur to the facility next to yard master office. This 25-ton will do the switching at Third Street.
LOL - paperwork going astray is pretty prototypical. I had an uncle who worked on the railroad here in Norway back in the early 1970s who spent quite a bit of his time looking for cars which had been left somewhere after the paperwork had gone astray
Ah, now I see it - the red and white behind the coal car is the cab of the 25-tonner.Cool
At FREMO meeting this happens too, isolated cars and car cards. And there’s the rule to send this car to a certain staging yard where found car cards are brought also.
Wolfgang … This is great thread about operations. … Thanks for sharing it… I think operations is the most enjoyable partt of the hobby. It is good the have many industrial tracks.
Thank you for posting Wolfgang. Operations adds another very fun dimension to this hobby as we get a much better feel for what it’s like for the prototye railroads.
Your YouTube clips are also outstanding. If you ever decided to put a professional video together on realistic model railroad operations, I think it would sell! [4:-)]
Here’s Westport yard at the end of my pleasure time.
The switcher is just pulling four box cars from class track 2. With this job I will continue next time.
Two cars are bound for the BN interchange and two cars for Westport freight house. A switching job for the yard crew.
The class track to the right has two hopper and box cars. These cars are for then next day train to International Falls. There will come more cars in the afternoon.
Class track 4 has 5 cars (starting with a WT boxcar) for Harbor District and track 5 has only one car for Third Street District. These two tracks will be pulled in the afternoon and make up the Harbor turn.
The class track 1 (to the left of the switcher) has cars bound for Diamond Valley and Joevalley. These cars will go in the appropriate trains in the afternoon.
Arrival / departure track 3 is empty, A/D track two has cov hoppers. These cars will be exchanged by the grain train.
And at A/D track 1 are outbound cars for South Jct. This train will also depart in the afternoon.
Thanks for sharing Wolf, that was thoroughly enjoying. I LOVE the dirty RS-1, it fits the SOO paint. Wasn’t a 44 tonner in your MR “Trackside Photos” feature few months back?
