North Eastern Railroad Freight Activity (c) 2004

 

Work Order: NEFL-018g FLO

Time: 5 p.m., November 1954

Season: Fall

Weather: Rain

Difficulty: Easy

Duration: 50 mins.

Train: 1x Alco S1 switcher

Class: 1

 

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.

 

NEFL-018g is part of a series of work orders to represent different parts of the NERR's traffic handling the Florida orange harvest. 

 

The rain that flooded out the East Metro has made it down here to Florida.  But the orange harvest proceeds apace.  You're going to run an extra from Lakeland on into  St. Petersburg.  They need the hoppers full of salt that are parked on the far siding over there, for the icing platforms in St. Pete.

 

Make the reverse onto the siding as quick as possible.  A priority train of reefers from Pensacola is right behind you and has to have that center track through Lakeland station.

 

Await clearance on the main after you couple to the hoppers.

  

Speed Limits: 50 mph max, otherwise as posted.