North Eastern Railroad Freight Activity (c) 2003

 

Work Order: NEPR018b FLO

Time: 10 a.m., November 1954

Season: Winter

Weather: Snow

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 2:30

Train: Berkshire 2-8-4

Class: 2

 

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.

 

NEPR018b FLO is part of a series of work orders to represent different parts of the NERR's traffic handling the Florida orange harvest. 

  NEEM018a FLO came first.

  NEPR018c FLO is next

 

One of the Fairbanks-Morse H16s that was hauling empty reefers from the East Metro subdivision last night had a failed water pump.  That took all three engines down.  Engineers are still working to bring the other two engines back up, but they keep cutting out, so East Metro dispatched your Berkshire 2-8-4 and scrounged up some yard engines to bring the crippled train on into Frederick.  NERR lost 10 money-burning hours in getting this string of empties down to Florida. 

 

The PRRR subdivision didn't have time to get more H16 power into Frederick, so you're going to continue on to Hoodoo Pass with a helper, where the PRRR will have replacement diesels waiting.  You're also hauling three hoppers to be set out at Bodie.

 

The late hurricane that hit along the east coast a couple of days ago caused flooding in the East Metro Division.  Over the PRRR subdivision all that rain has turned to snow.

 

You'll have to

1.spot the crippled H16s at Frederick Yard Maintenance Shop

2.pick up some more empty reefers at Frederick

3. Spot the 3 hoppers at Bodie

4. Then head on up to the Pass.

 

Speed Limits as posted.