WRS Crew had the first operating session is a few months. Sorry no pictures more on that later.
Since the last operating session the WRS has changed, with the addition of the MEC/South Yard replacing the MEC Interchange at Greenfield.
So the Grand Plan was to have an operator work the new yard and build the out going trains. There are four trains that depart from this yard during the session and three that arrive. In total 43 cars are required in the yard at the start of the operation. The problem is the present stage yard tracks can only hold maybe thirty cars at the most. There were cars parked on the switches and leads to the yard. And of course, the cars for the first train were at the far end of each track. Something was said about dragging the last engineer, who worked the yard, behind the switcher.
About an hour after starting, Barry finally had the yard cleaned up and the first train was about to depart. This time allowed the other members of the Crew a lot of time to catch up on what happened during the summer.
Pierre was busy working the revised Paper Mill. Glen was switching the town of Roseton and Bruce switched Dogwood. Bruce was using a BAR GP38 with sound, which his son Andrew had just finished. Wayne was busy with his pair of GP 40 MEC units on the main line.
Of course there were the usual issues with a layout that has not be operated during the summer and will keep the maintance crew busy for awhile.
Adjustments will be made to the Yard operations before the next session to improve travel flow.
Oh the pictures, by the time we got the first train out of the Yard, I was to busy to take pictures... that is my story ...
later
Doug
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6 comments:
Forget to take your lens cap off again Doug?
Ric
I wished my camera had a lens cap to leave on.
By the time I had time or remembered to take pictures, half of the crew had ran out of hours and had to clock off.
Doug
Hopefully I'll get a chance to see the new layout soon Doug. Have not heard yet when work will bring me to your area but soon I hope.
Allan
Let me know when you are going to be in town again and we arrange a visit.
Doug
hmmm - dont recall MEC ever having GP40's - they are actually 38's Doug. I have three volumes of the Morning Sun Maine Central books i can lend you if you wanna brush up on MEC. Oh - I think Guilford had GP-40's with the MEC intials on the lower part of the cabs, but in my books those werent really MEC GP 40's.....
Hi Doug. Looks like you had a great ops session in Sept. I just had one on Friday last and it was great to see the layout back in operations mode. Hope to post some pictures taken by the track gang.
Chris
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