New Ore Facility/ New Farm Silo for Farmers
Good morning all,
Well I had something on my mind about trans loading ORE here at the Pier, you know me, :hehe:I just have to jump in and make it happen.....
So I went over to my Harbor Master Division (Phil Skene's Creation, Awesome) and realized I could make some change here on this scale.
I dropped in A wood wall Deck, and I see something here I need to fix,oops.....
Anyway, Put in some small Dock Cranes, and brought in a ORE ship, we now have a pure trans load facility, not to large, and our Yard in the way I have Tracks setup, it will work fine.......Because in my Yard, I have enough Tracks spread out over a fair area, nothing should bottle neck, they all dump into a double main line too. We are unloading Iron Ore here.
This is a view from the other side, we take two rows ORE cars and each Crane will fill 4 at a time as they slowly get pushed back. Doesn't take long, and we have the power to Shunt, that was one of reasons I brought in that amount of Locos, Big Boy will pull the consists out once they are stringed together. And will probably put Helper Service on the back for keeping Knuckle breakage out of the picture.....I think this will work well?
Now in this picture, you see the new Cranes, but also notice my Pulp Mill tracks and Engine Service lead out of the yard by Separate Main between the 2 large industrial buildings.
Now there is a point at the end of the Yard where all three (3) Tracks converge into one before it hits the Double (2) mainlines, But I also have a backup plan if that does not work, I have a long Spur coming out around the Yard Limit Approach Curves, and I could just cut One (1) of those (3) leads to (2) tracks and run the other one along the Double main much further out around the mountain in the back?
And I may have to do that, so the next thing I'll do is finish the Spur connections on both sides and throw in some Switches so if traffic is too busy coming out of the Yard it's available to use.....Just thinking ahead, and if we don't use it as bypass for Traffic, I have plenty of empty Cars we can throw in there and use it as extra Storage, as I don't have a lot of Storage in this yard, but my other Larger Yard is not too far away from this yard.
I'll pop another Picture in of the area I'm referring too for more Clarity.
Looking at this picture, Red Arrows, you see the new instillation and we have the ORE CARS loaded and ready for Shunting. Crews for Big Boy and Helper Service Job Briefings have been notified at 05:00 AM this morning.....The Crew has just reported to the Yard and are picking up their paperwork now for JOB....
Look at Yellow Boxcar, and just to the Right is where all the Tracks come together...That is one of the spots I will make some relief Track improvements for more fluidity of Car movement out of the yard, little tweak here and there....
We are in the Process of shunting these loaded Boxcars into the Local Industries here with a trio of SP SD240-2 Units my old reliable's.
And we have a new Item courtesy of DAVE SNOW, master builder, saw this on his Thread with many other items he is making, and thought OH HECK YA!!!!
I need this on my Farm Field to move the Grain out of this area, and make it easier for the Farmers to get their Grain to and From the Markets, so we dropped in a Feed Supply and Grain Silo assortment, and the Farmers helped pay, for the installation and everyone gains on this project, now a single Spur Stop had two (2) businesses on it, and the Railroad gets more work, plus will have a small dedicated Switcher to move stuff around, we might add a little more track depending on Business here, have to wait and see, Farmers will let me know at our annual meeting. Everybody is happy as this works for the Community and the Rail Industry.
Yellow Arrow was new industry recently, now we have Trans load Feed Grainery and Supply Store for Seed and Stuff, Farmers won't have to Travel as far for supplies........Now the store up front sells Seed too, but they sell a lot of other items too, so it will be compatible for both, as we have a lot of Farms in this area......Plenty of brisk business for all.....Plus the Farmers agree, they like this arrangement, one place will not be too crowded for access.
Looking at it from this vantage point I'll need a good size dirt road from the back highway for access to both however I might just Pave a Road in to both places.....Have to play with that idea?
All Good!
The local is sitting here for a bit, as will pick up some loads from the new Grain Mill in back, Local Switch Power will bring it up and will break Steam engine from train for min to have Switcher Drop it in for us........Very minimal delay, plus we have the power in this Steam to add the Cars to our load.
I dropped in a quick BNSF switcher for now, I might change it out for something else later......This fit in so well in this field, it was easy to do.......
Thank you SIR Dave Snow for your wonderful Creations.......
I had plenty of room in the Field, so just needed to see where it might fit the best, so I chose the spot closer to highway in the back, I need to put in small road for access by Farmers and other Deliveries needed for Operations.......
Another thing I'm happy about I'm trying to maintain an open area look here, so I think this addition keeps with my general plan......