At the invitation of the Dispatcher of the Harbor Master Railroad, I joined Chuck and Joe in the late afternoon as they were refueling their GP60:
C & J had only begun working on Harbor Master that very morning. They were discussing how to best perform their last turn, and showed me their orders:
Chuck, Joe – Dispatcher here. Your final turn of the day is what we call the Gondola Shuttle.
Both the Boutique Smelter and the Sintering and Ceramics plants need feedstock. Two gondolas of coal and two of iron ore for the first, and two gondolas of coal and two of ceramic powder for the second.
The coal and iron ore come from the Coal and Minerals Wharf, the ceramics from the Bulk Wharf. You will find two gondolas down in the Classification Yard.
First off, however, the Dry Dock needs plate steel from Alans Multifunctional. Use the two flat cars in Classification to run the plates over.
When finished, give the locomotive to the next crew at the Handover Hut at Classification before signing off. I have booked a taxi two hours from now to take home.
You must keep to all speed limits. You must give priority to all other trains.
Eventually we head off, giving way to a Class 1 railroad train before crossing over to the north side of the yard and down to the Classification Yard:
The Class 1 was one of just many trains I saw that afternoon. The majority were hot-shot intermodal container trains.
At Classification we attached the two flat cars:
and loaded them with steel plate at Alan's:
After an animated discussion, C & J decided the quickest way to the Dry Dock was the eastern route, pushing the flats past Boutique:
and into the Dry Dock where we unloaded the steel plates.
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C & J had only begun working on Harbor Master that very morning. They were discussing how to best perform their last turn, and showed me their orders:
Chuck, Joe – Dispatcher here. Your final turn of the day is what we call the Gondola Shuttle.
Both the Boutique Smelter and the Sintering and Ceramics plants need feedstock. Two gondolas of coal and two of iron ore for the first, and two gondolas of coal and two of ceramic powder for the second.
The coal and iron ore come from the Coal and Minerals Wharf, the ceramics from the Bulk Wharf. You will find two gondolas down in the Classification Yard.
First off, however, the Dry Dock needs plate steel from Alans Multifunctional. Use the two flat cars in Classification to run the plates over.
When finished, give the locomotive to the next crew at the Handover Hut at Classification before signing off. I have booked a taxi two hours from now to take home.
You must keep to all speed limits. You must give priority to all other trains.
Eventually we head off, giving way to a Class 1 railroad train before crossing over to the north side of the yard and down to the Classification Yard:
The Class 1 was one of just many trains I saw that afternoon. The majority were hot-shot intermodal container trains.
At Classification we attached the two flat cars:
and loaded them with steel plate at Alan's:
After an animated discussion, C & J decided the quickest way to the Dry Dock was the eastern route, pushing the flats past Boutique:
and into the Dry Dock where we unloaded the steel plates.
(continues)
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