Work Order:
NEDF-109-09-Must-Ret03
Time: 10:00a
Season: Summer
Weather: Clear
Difficulty:
Medium
Duration: 1hrs
10min
Train: U23B#4493
& GN-GP38#2011 + RS18 as helper
Class: 2 (due to
few instructions, little or no pathing)
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After dropping
off the sick Mustangs at Dierker Farms, you
are on the return load continuing from
Marshall where we paused in the previous part.
We are to reassemble the train and are ready
to begin. There are no
speed restrictions, just keep in mind
you are still carrying various Hazmat
materials and need to be extra cautious.
SPECIFICS: (per
Work Order)
Marshall Yard -
Assemble train
MP140 -
Setterville Refinery Setout - Tank Cars (Stay
within signal confines)
To help you plan
your attack, your load is: 6,050hp, 2634 tons
and 2363ft in length and consists
of ..
10 Tankers to
Setterville,
8 Martins Manure
Cars to Caines CT and Gayles Nursery,
15 Hazmat
(explosives) to NoWater, Valley Mining and Ada
Earth Products
4 Tropicana Cars
to CC Bottling and AB Bottling
Hints: Marshall
Yard - My advice for First order of business
would be to put Outgoing5 on front of
Outgoing4. Then pickup the Work Track next to
us and all of Outgoing4 behind. However, there
are a couple ways of doing it. Wait until
10:18 to enter main.
Setterville is a
straight back into Holding 1
NOTES: There are
a couple of places on this that MSTS gets
extremely confused due to using no reverse
points to get you in and out and about.
However, most of these should be covered if
you are within a resonable window of time.
Marshall Yard -
Should be leaving very close to the 10:18
dispatch clearance.
Setterville - In
at approx 10:25-26 and out around 10:35.
Also, you are
running #4493, but it was originally designed
for #5004 which was switched out and moved to
another location at the last minute. Rather
than re-doing all the orders and to simplify
things, dispatch kept the train #5004
designation.
Some observations
on my running if it helps any: I do not couple
at more than 2mph max, I wait for air to
release before going forward or backwards
after application, I wait for the brakeman to
get back to the front (although sometimes he
may have to hurry) ;-) and I generally run 5
mph under the posted speed limit.
Keeping this in
mind, the schedule is rather tight and does
not allow for any misses.
RobertR #109
