North Eastern Railroad Freight Activity (c) 2003

 

Work Order: NEEM018a FLO

Time: 1 p.m.

Season: Winter

Weather: Raining

Difficulty: Hard (but can be done!)

Duration: 3:30

Train: SW1500 1056

Class: 4

 

The early season orange harvest is reaching a fevered pace in Florida.  Processing plants are swamped with Hamlin and Parson Brown varieties, warehouses are at capacity.  Shippers are screaming for as much tonnage as as the NERR can muster, to get oranges to the cold storage and distribution facilities in the Midwest and Northeast.

 

NEEM018a FLO is part of a series of work orders, which can be done in any order but are designed to be done consecutively as shown below, to represent different parts of the NERR's traffic handling the Florida orange harvest.  Other work orders will have the FLO extension in the name, to include:

  NEPR018b FLO (Hoodoo Pass)

  NEIC018c FLO

  NEFF018d FLO

  NEFF018e FLO

  NEFL018f FLO

  NEFL018g FLO

  NEEM018h FLO

  NENE018i FLO

  NENJ018j FLO

 

The job today is to make the local run along the East Metro subdivision.  You'll pick up all the reefers that have been staged along the route over the last few weeks, preparatory to the Florida harvest.

 

The late hurricane that hit along the east coast a couple of days ago has caused extensive flooding in Titan City and south, so the reefers are being routed over Hoodoo Pass instead.  The line is yours today, there's no other traffic south of Big City due to the storm.

 

Popups will contain work order entries as you proceed.  Most switching is manual, get permission to pass reds.  Keep the caboose at the end of the train.  Slim, the conductor, doesn't like to be jostled during setouts and pickups.

 

[Notes: 1. On the SW1500, in the cabview, the right arrow lets you look out the back window.

             2. A glitch on this route causes the speed limit to go to 15 when exiting an industry siding.  Speed limit is 35 on the main.

             3. You'll need maps!

 

Setouts and Pickups (not necessarily in order)

Refer to thisas a reminder after you get the popup for the given location.

 

 

BF Transfer south-bound:

 

Drop off on inbound track - two red boxcars. 

Run-around track is clear.

 

 

Oil City:

 

Drop off at OC Chocolate - blue box

Pick up at OC Chocolate -  boxcar

Drop off at Oil city Crude inbound -  all 3 tankers

Drop off at wye - helper

 

 

East Metro:

 

pick up at Natural Foodstuffs outgoing - two empty reefers

 

 

Smallville:

 

pick up at Smallville Tool & Die  - 1 green box

set out at Smallville Tool & Die - 1 flat

pick up reefers on the outbound track

 

 

 

Glenville Supply northbound:

 

Pick up the empty gondola.

 

 

 

BF Transfer northbound:

 

Pick up all reefers