A Guest Passenger for a Conrail Coal Drag
Hey everyone,
I appologize for this thread being quiet for so long, but changing the era of a route is much harder than I expected, haha. I've managed to complete the Afton Branch and finished up Greenwood. This set of screens is going to feature a big portion of Jointed Rail's and Pweiser's rollingstock, so make sure you thank Paul for providing all the beautiful New Haven content that really gives my modifications beauty, and be sure to take advantage of Jointed Rail's sale this weekend! I for one plan on purchasing their B-Boats! Also a huge thanks to all of the other content creators in the community, I hope you're all pleased with my placing of your content in my mod of CeeBee's route! And Ed, your buildings and vans are awesome! I live in the next town over from Sapperstein's, so I was very pleased to see it on your page of the DLS!
So, enough mushy talk, haha, please enjoy!
The Highland Terminal Railroad has been making grounds in building a larger collection of motive power and rolling stock for it's operation and collection, trying to save what they can from scrap and build a larger fleet. The Afton Mining Company recently donated their ALCo RS11 on the terms that the HTRR collect the unit on their dime. The RS11, a former New Haven unit, was purchased by the mine shortly after PC took in the New Haven's assetts. The mining company wanted to have a switching unit all to themselves to avoid the costs of continuing to have another company switch the mine's property, reducing the proffit earned from the natural resources they produced. Since the aging ALCo had been serving the facility already, PC simply sold the unit and left the engine on the mine's property, where it was patched with the company's name shorthly thereafter. The unit served the mine for a few years, until shortly after the time Conrail came into existence. The unit suffered a mechanical failure, and without a suitable shop (or resources for that matter), the engine was laid to rest in the back of the mine, and Conrail began switching for the company. Wanting to clean up the property, the mine's owners decided that donating the unit would be a more kindhearted fate for the engine than letting it rot in the weeds.
HTRR contracted Conrail to bring the ALCo to the Greenwood Shops on one of their various freights that travel the line. In Greenwood, the unit will be restored to good working mechanical order. HTRR will restore the unit cosmetically at some point in the future. Plans were made, and it was decided to drag the engine off the branch on a loaded coal drag. Here we see the ALCo on the wye after just being dropped off by the mine's new resident switcher.
Back in Stormont, the crew of the coal drag gets permission to back to the mine and collect the dead locomotive and the loaded coal cars. The train features a caboose which will be used as a shoving platform.
The pair of GE's gently groans past the gravel pit, and backs past the signal protecting the control point.
The crew then collects both the ALCo and the cut of loaded coal hoppers.
The engineer radios to the dispatcher in Greenwood, and after receiving the clear to highball the mine the train is soon underway.
Continued...
Hey everyone,
I appologize for this thread being quiet for so long, but changing the era of a route is much harder than I expected, haha. I've managed to complete the Afton Branch and finished up Greenwood. This set of screens is going to feature a big portion of Jointed Rail's and Pweiser's rollingstock, so make sure you thank Paul for providing all the beautiful New Haven content that really gives my modifications beauty, and be sure to take advantage of Jointed Rail's sale this weekend! I for one plan on purchasing their B-Boats! Also a huge thanks to all of the other content creators in the community, I hope you're all pleased with my placing of your content in my mod of CeeBee's route! And Ed, your buildings and vans are awesome! I live in the next town over from Sapperstein's, so I was very pleased to see it on your page of the DLS!
So, enough mushy talk, haha, please enjoy!
The Highland Terminal Railroad has been making grounds in building a larger collection of motive power and rolling stock for it's operation and collection, trying to save what they can from scrap and build a larger fleet. The Afton Mining Company recently donated their ALCo RS11 on the terms that the HTRR collect the unit on their dime. The RS11, a former New Haven unit, was purchased by the mine shortly after PC took in the New Haven's assetts. The mining company wanted to have a switching unit all to themselves to avoid the costs of continuing to have another company switch the mine's property, reducing the proffit earned from the natural resources they produced. Since the aging ALCo had been serving the facility already, PC simply sold the unit and left the engine on the mine's property, where it was patched with the company's name shorthly thereafter. The unit served the mine for a few years, until shortly after the time Conrail came into existence. The unit suffered a mechanical failure, and without a suitable shop (or resources for that matter), the engine was laid to rest in the back of the mine, and Conrail began switching for the company. Wanting to clean up the property, the mine's owners decided that donating the unit would be a more kindhearted fate for the engine than letting it rot in the weeds.


HTRR contracted Conrail to bring the ALCo to the Greenwood Shops on one of their various freights that travel the line. In Greenwood, the unit will be restored to good working mechanical order. HTRR will restore the unit cosmetically at some point in the future. Plans were made, and it was decided to drag the engine off the branch on a loaded coal drag. Here we see the ALCo on the wye after just being dropped off by the mine's new resident switcher.

Back in Stormont, the crew of the coal drag gets permission to back to the mine and collect the dead locomotive and the loaded coal cars. The train features a caboose which will be used as a shoving platform.

The pair of GE's gently groans past the gravel pit, and backs past the signal protecting the control point.


The crew then collects both the ALCo and the cut of loaded coal hoppers.



The engineer radios to the dispatcher in Greenwood, and after receiving the clear to highball the mine the train is soon underway.

Continued...