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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Train Routes

Elsewhere Freight.  After picking up rolling stock  requirements for 2 industry cards, it leaves Elsewhere and travels the mainline to Wellington, switching freight as required. After switching Wellington, if needed, the train is left on 1 of the receiving yards tracks.

Ore Train picks up empties at Great Lakes Steel in Jutland. Heading west on the mainline, it's switches to the branch line at Lincoln. It continues  to Ortona and switches empties with loads. It then returns with the loads, via Lincoln to Jutland, and switches the ore cars to the Great Lakes Steel siding. There are 2 unit ore trains 1 brown and 1 black, not to be mixed.

Ortona Mixed Freight. Leaves Ortona  yard with yesterday's freight train, 2 industrial cards, and the passenger/caboose stopping at all stations on its way to Elsewhere, where it drops it's freight cars. Then it picks up rolling stock requirements  for the 2 industrial cards picked from the branch line card rack before leaving Ortona. It now returns to the branch line via Lincoln and completes it's required switching. The picked up rolling stock and passenger/caboose is left in the Ortona  yard.

Mainline Passenger Train. The passenger cars are picked up in the Wellington  passenger yard. All stations are stopped at on its trip to Herons Landing where it turns on the lower loop. It then returns to Wellington again stopping at all stations on its trip. It enters the upper loop at Trents  Hill tunnel to arrive at the Wellington station.

Log Train starts by picking up empty log cars at the Miller sawmill. Running around the log cars in Miller, it switches back at Oxford, pushing the log cars up to Pinehurst. The log cars are run around again in Pinehurst so they can be pushed up to  the spare tree at Ridgewood. The loaded log cars are pulled from the spare tree siding and run around in Pinehurst. After switching back at Oxford the log cars are run around in Northdale, and delivered to the logging pond siding at the sawmill in Miller.

Wellington  Freight. The reverse of the Elsewhere Freight. Any switching in Wellington will be done from the industrial run around. 
Train schedule 




Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Tuesday night at the Huff and Puff, 2/14/2017

Most members did some running during the chaos of putting Wellington back together. Some wired in switch machines, added missing ties and some ballasting, to the new Wellington track work. The industrial track will be ballasted with black ballast to help separate it visually from the mainline. The track to the coaling tower needs to be put in and lots of wiring and ballasting to come.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Track gang, Friday 10, Feb. 2017

After studying the picture of the industrial area, posted previously, I didn't think the east end of the industrial run around was laid out correctly. The big u curve looked like trouble. With some help from Glen and Donald we arrived at a far better track arrangement, which also made the team track siding/switching lead a straight run, Bonus!  Small areas of track was ballasted to help keep things in place for a test run. The freight yard was laid out, which shifted it slightly towards the aisle, which allowed the sanding rack to be moved further from it's turnouts. This allowed better alignment of the 2 tracks. The caboose track was then installed. It is estimated that the freight yard will hold 45 cars.
Freight yard, sanding rack and caboose track 

Revised industrial run around, the u is gone.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Work night, Feb. 7, 2017

The track layout at Wellington was talked about and generally agreed to. Then a list of outstanding projects was read and after the meeting most of them were worked on. The ore track was finished, the outside lean of the curve near Oxford was corrected. At least 1 lead was put into the turntable and the marshaling yard was nailed down. The freight yard, sanding rack and caboose track were worked on. The new run around was completed in Herons Landing. Now feeders were installed. We agreed to test the yards in Wellington before ballasting them.
Oxford curve reworked

Herons Landing new run around

Ore siding

View of the marshaling yard

Laying out the freight yard tracks.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Yard Work Feb. 5, 2017

Put in the inbound/outbound yard and the industrial run around. The industries were put into position and tracks were positioned to them. All of the turnouts on the far side of this yard will be powered. The freight yard was also laid out with its runaround and the sanding/fueling tracks. Once everyone agrees to the layout, it will be installed. The new ore track was installed.
Yard tracks

Freight yard

Ore siding

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Tuesday night at the Huff and Puff, Jan. 31, 2017

Cookies, thanks Rick. Wellington has been cleaned down to the base. The new tracks to the logging camp were ballasted and a scenic base has been installed for the ore siding. All of the old track and turnouts have been cleaned.


Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Tuesday night at the Huff & Puff JAN 25, 2017

The concept plan was accepted in principle with some minor revisions. After laying it out we feel that both tracks to the turntable can run under the coaling tower. The concensus was that this yard should be at least 6 feet in length between turnout ladders. Jim suggested we use insulated rail joiners on the first turnout. This way we can build the yard insulated from the layout. The order is in for the required turnouts. Once this yard is in the storage yard can be planned and installed. The last part, the industrial section, can then be worked on, but there is no need to hurry with this part as we can operate without it.