Hello everyone, got another project in the works. This is Charlotte, CBA, part of a project me and some buddies are working on that is a completely fictional continent. This city has two major carriers and a short line running through it, 20+ local jobs. It's main industries are a Tropicana plant, 2 Intermodal ports and 2 coal ports but there's much more! I do plan on eventually releasing the route but not the fictional, I figure this would be a perfect place to have CSX and NS operating in the same city like what is seen in a lot of places up and down the eastern seaboard.
Here we have the 8:00 yard job with a fresh crew with their two motors in 8 and sand as they pull a hefty freshly arrived manifest out of the arrival track and get ready to break it down. Most of the manifest traffic is for a small steel mill and a synthetic textile plant. The local that serves only those two industries is on average 50 cars long. To the left is an international stacker P-0113 coming into the port from Troy, outpacing the yard job by just a little bit as it does.
Just the day before the same powerset was used to drop some empty boxcars at a paper recycling facility on the Wynnton industrial lead, just to right of the yard.
On another day we see a D-0413 passing the yard on it's way to the domestic terminal
All's quiet at the engine ready tracks
Both the P&D and NWRR defer a lot of industry work in the south port area to the CSR, a small industrial short line whose roster consists of only 2 GP15s. They are seen here pulling forward past the switch in order to shove back into their yard behind them after pulling scrap empties from the Pipe Foundry. In it's way is I105, an NWRR intermodal train freshly originating from it's respective intermodal facility bound for Edisonton.
The inverse of that train I104 is seen here cruising past the NWRR yard with a dormant inbound manifest on the arriving track.
Charlotte junction is a hive of activity as loaded Apex Mining coal drag led by some ancient U30Cs comes of their connection at the same time a northbound manifest departs P&D's yard AMRR is a mining railroad based 70 miles west of Charlotte with haulage rights on the P&D to export coal at P&Ds large coal terminal on the east side of the penninsula.
