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 Posted - November 20 2007 : 2:23:33 PM
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Hey guys:
Coast over and have a look...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/romcat/Jim Marksberrys Templar Street.jpg
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5085
http://carendt.com/scrapbook/page33a/index.html
I'm also adding this Operational Narrartive from a fella on a Proto-freelancing list I subscribe to:
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The Winnfield to Zion Creek Turn
Posted by: "George W Simmons" GEORGESIMMONS@prodigy.net realmopacman
Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:08 pm (PST)
On the Dry Prong, Bentley & Gulf Railroad's Winn District, on of the
local is the "ZION CREEK TURN" or "WZT" as the Tplan calls it. It
operates out of a same yard in the town of Winnfield, LA to Zion
Creek which is basically a siding in the woods with a team track, a
holding track and an industrial lead to the Iatt Papermill.
This is a six day a week job. Cars for the turn are setout
overnight by through trains between Alexandria, LA and Memphis, TN,
Oklahoma City, OK and Little Rock, AR. These same trains will
pickup any cars going to there destinations.
The WZT's crew comes on duty around 7:01 am and receives it
paperwork from the agent. A quick check of the motive power and
caboose follows. Currently the power for this is leased GP18&GP7
from the MOP. Leaving the caboose on the short runaround track, the
crew pulls south onto the main track and after lining the switch for
the main moves northward up past the northend siding switch. The
crew is able to do this since the main track through Winnfield is
yard limits from OK Jct 1/2 mile north of the passing sidings to 200
feet south of the Dudgemona River Bridge at south end of town.
Using the main north of town the crew will work the cars that have
been left overnight. The yard has four tracks not including the
passing siding and main track. These are tracks 1, 2, 3 and CS lead.
Tracks 1, 2 and 3 are double ended while CS lead can only be worked
from the north end. Cars in the yard can be going to any industry
in one of three towns, Winnfield, Crews & Zion Creek. The first
thing the crew will do is seperate the cars according to the
destination town. Once this is done, they will work the industries
in Winnfield. These include the following industries:
Dudgemona Sawmill
Atlanta Pulpwood
Winnfield Freight House
Double D Plastics
Winn Grocers
Winn Team
and on the CS lead:
Castor Oil Company
Castor Salt Mine.
Working the industries on the CS lead requires contacting the
Dispatcher for permission to operate the gate governing the crossing
of the main track to reach the salt mine.
After working the industries in Winnfield, the crew will drop
outbound cars in the yard and make up the southbound train with cars
for Crews, Zion Creek and transfer at Zion Creek Holding for
industries in Iatt and Rigolette, the towns work by the locals out
of Alexandria yard.
Once they have there train ready, pickup up the caboose from the
short runaround track and completed the air test, they will contact
the dispatcher for permission to depart southward.
Once authority to depart southward is given, the head brakeman will
line the switches at the south end of the siding and the train will
depart. As the caboose clears the southswitch, the rear brakeman
will line the switch back to the main and climb aboard the caboose.
The track climbs out of Winnfield southbound crossing the CS lead
and the Dudgemona River Bridge. After a 30 minute trip, the WZT
will arrive in Crews. The industries in Crews are:
Grant Gravel
Moses Lumber
Crews Team
Elliott Fertilizer
All except Elliott Fertilizer are located on the siding. Grant
Gravel and Moses Lumber are located on the same spur, so the crew
will need to get those cars arranged properly for spotting.
Experienced crews know to do this prior to departing Winnfield.
Crews Team and Elliott Fertilizer are facing point switches
southbound, so either they will to run around cars to work these
industries are wait until their return trip. Since most outbound
cars from Crews will go back to Winnfield, they will leave them on
siding when they depart to Zion Creek taking only the cars for that
location.
Between Crews and Zion Creek, the line reaches its highest point in
this area. In Zion Creek, the only industry is the team track so
all cars for Zion Creek are setout here. It is double ended, so can
be worked from either direction. At Zion Creek any cars for the
Iatt papermill or the town of Rigolette are placed on the Holding
Track or the lead to the papermill. Usually, the only cars that the
WZT will have for the papermill are a loaded woodchip hopper from
Dudgemona Sawmill, loaded pulpwood racks or empty boxcars for paper
loading. Rarely loads of gravel are sent to Rigolette along with
empty boxcars for loading at the P&G plant located there.
Northbound departing from Zion Creek, the train will usually have
empty woodchip and pulpwood racks along with occasional empty
boxcars for places such as the fertilizer plant or sawmill.
At Crews northbound, the train will do any final local work and
pickup out cars. Cars going to distant locations such as Alexandria
or beyond southbound or North of Winnfield are brought back to
Winnfield.
Upon return to Winnfield, any final local work is completed. Then
the crews makes up the blocks for pickup by the through trains that
will arrive overnight. These blocks are as follows:
Train 84 - West Monroe, Pine Bluff, Memphis
Train 34 - El Dorado & Little Rock
Train 54 - Bossier City, De Queen, Atoka, Oklahoma City
Train 85 - Lake Charles, Alexandria
Train 55 - Alexandria, Jasper, Houston, Bryan
After completeing this the crew will return the motive power to the
short runaround track along with the caboose. Paper work is turned
into the Agent at Winnfield and Dispatcher is informed that they are
clear of all main tracks.
George Simmons
Chief Operating Officer
Dry Prong, Bentley & Gulf Lines
Dry Prong, LA
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Enjoy,
-G
Edited by - romcat on November 20 2007 2:37:47 PM
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