SHIPPING

[Lester Perry]

This thread is for shipping between layouts only. Any question or suggestions should be posted at" Shipping to others" thread. Thank You.

[Lester Perry]

My shipping customers are.

1 Gills cabinetry and fine furniture
2 Jones transfer. / truck to rail, rail to truck
3 Edwards mfg. / Make anything metal, trusses to truck body's
4 5 coal mines
5 Oil well
6 Timber / pulpwood, logs
7 Saw mill / Kiln dried and rough cut lumber
8 Gern / flux in liquid, powder & pellet also Hot coal flux.
9 Team Track


Receiving customers are

1 Gills cabinetry and fine furniture / springs, hardware etc.
2 Jones transfer. / truck to rail, rail to truck
3 Edwards mfg. / Steel, all forms
4 Round house & Car shop
5Team track / Misc
6 Hillside Lumber / Lumber & building supplies
7 Gern
8 EGP Fuels / fuel oil & coal

Thats all I can think of right now

[jwb]

Los Feliz and North Western Railroad Co.
(any era, 55 foot car length max)

Industries that send loads:

DeLaBarre Tap & Die – machine tools
American Tool & Die – machine tools
Woollett Shoe Company – finished shoes
Pierce Mining Co. – coal
Terrible Mine – gold & silver ore
Pillsbury Flour – flour
Cargill Grain -- grain
Zenith Knitting Mills – textiles
Cantil Spur – soda ash
Loma Linda Lumber Co. – cut lumber, logs, woodchips

Industries that receive loads:

Edison Electric Co. – coal
City Coal Co. – coal
Jacobs Coal – coal, oil
Crosby Coal – coal
Zenith Water Department – chlorine
Woollett team track – any
Zenith team track – any
West Zenith team track – any
Rhubarb Distributors -- produce
Forley Lithography – Paper
Oswego Manufacturing – Paper

[Mike Kieran]

While the Port Able Railway will be modeled in 1979, I'm willing to keep a few older 40 footers around for backdating photography.

Here's my car flow chart:

Port Able Railway Carload Chart

Regina Manufacturing Corp.

Inbound:
2 box cars (hardware, parts)

Outbound:
1 box car (manufactured goods)

Whist Building Supply Inc.

Inbound:
2 covered hoppers (cement)

Nemo Fish Co.

Outbound:
2 reefers (frozen fish)

[Lester Perry]

[Lester Perry]

First a car has to be loaded.



Now it is pulled from the mine with other cars to make the trip to Clifton Forge.



In route



After arriving at C.F. yard it is put with a train going West for the first leg of the trip to Los Feliz and North Western Railroad Co.



Departs C.F.



to be mailed Monday.

[jwb]

Les gave me an interesting problem: "Gills cabinetry & fine furnishing would use textiles so how about a 1/2 car loaded with textiles and the other 1/2 of shoes going to Jones Transfer to be cross loaded to truck for local distribution." As far as I understand these things, this would be an LCL move, since there's half a carload going here and half going there. I've read about LCL now and then, but I haven't set up for it (yet, anyhow) on my layout. On the other hand, anything for a good customer! So the yard clerks found an empty that could be captured for LCL service, and I decided to run an extra:    
PRR 28919 is an Accurail via a third-party painter that I tweaked some to represent a PRR AAR rebuild on an X29 frame, not quite as much work as Dr Wayne puts into these things, but the same idea. It's a good candidate for this thread, since I got it in a set of 3, and if this one goes south, I have two more like it. And the PRR Merchandise lettering would (I think) be correct for LCL.

The textiles Les referred to would come from Zenith Knitting Mills. Here's a shot of the extra, taken over the roof of Zenith's historic St. John's Episcopal Church:     Photo angles aren't too good here, so this is the only shot of this move. If I had a video camera, I could handle it like Emery Gulash with the play of movement in light and shadow, but I don't have one (yet).

So having picked up the textiles at Zenith Knitting Mills, the extra goes on to Woollett and the Woollett Shoe Company to load the other half of the boxcar with shoes:    

[jwb]

It seesaws up the switchback spur:    
And shoves back to the loading platform at the Woollett Shoe Company:     There's just enough room on the loading platform to load the shoes without having to move the hopper, since the loco is going to go right back with the loaded car.

I decided that all my off-layout interchange is going to go via car ferry. Here's a Santa Fe switcher shoving PRR 28919 onto the car ferry with a Santa Fe "boat flat", or idler (they used them in San Francisco Bay):    
And here it is on the float bridge -- bye bye, going to the post office tomorrow!    
On paperwork, I didn't have enough of an idea how to do an LCL waybill for the locations on Les's layout. We'll have to work this out as we go along!

I had a ball shooting these -- I hope more guys get inspired to do this.

[Lester Perry]

OOPs I forgot some paperwork. Got the order form, forgot shipper. Next time,

[jwb]

Here's Les's C&O 108866 on the float bridge coming into my layout:    
And here's the manifest/switch list for the local that will deliver it to Crosby Coal in West Egg:    

[Lester Perry]

Eastbound freight coming onto layout. It actually came through a new section that is not sceniced yet, I am in the fine tuning of the track process right now. So I am starting here. The PRR 28919 behind the locomotive is jwb's car.



Making its way across Big Ugly river and will cross it again a little further along.



Still easing along through the mountains of W.Va.



Crossing Big Ugly again. I wonder if they are catching anything.



In the background here you can see one of its destinations, Jones transfer.



Going past the rough part of town, That is JJs pool hall at the top of the stairs



Here we see it crossing over to the westbound tracks as it approaches Clifton Forge.



Going into the yard. If you look closely you can see the yellow caboose crossing in the distance.



PM 1409 (acquired when C&O bought PM) backing it into the car shop as there was some damage during the trip.



Looks like The truck has been rolled out from under the car. I have heard that there is a problem where the bolster sits on the truck.

[jwb]

Well, I've got to say that I'm glad the C&O had a good shop to fix my problem! And my car looks awful good in Les's photos!

Here's Les's C&O hopper in the West Egg Roustabout ready to leave Manhattan Transfer yard:    
Because there's no runaround in West Egg, the loco has to shove the two empty hoppers destined for the car float ahead of it. Here's the rest of the train:    
I'm trying out the JMRI switchlist program on this train (and some others). It has some good features other software doesn't have, and other software has features JMRI doesn't. For instance, RailOp can match the road name of loco and caboose, while JMRI doesn't. Thus I get a WM caboose on a PRR wayfreight. There are worse things in life.

Here's the action at Drawbridge, where the wayfreight picks up a WP box at the lumberyard and drops off a C&O box:        
And now we get to West Egg:    

[jwb]

After shoving the empty hoppers onto the car float, the switcher delivers the C&O hopper to Crosby Coal:    

[Mike Kieran]

While the Port Able Railway will be modeled in 1979, I'm willing to keep a few older 40 footers around for backdating photography.

Here's my car flow chart:

Port Able Railway Carload Chart

Regina Manufacturing Corp.

Inbound:
2 box cars (hardware, parts)

Outbound:
1 box car (manufactured goods)

Whist Building Supply Inc.

Inbound:
2 covered hoppers (cement)

Nemo Fish Co.

Outbound:
2 reefers (frozen fish)

I'm redoing my car flow chart. I'm going to run it 5 days per week with 1-2 car trains plus the engine and caboose.

Port Able Railway Carload Chart

Regina Manufacturing Corp.

Inbound:
2 box cars (hardware, parts)

Outbound:
1 box car (manufactured goods)

Whist Building Supply Inc.

Inbound:
2 covered hoppers (cement)

Nemo Fish Co.

Outbound:
2 reefers (frozen fish)

[jwb]

Here's a closer-in shot of Les's C&O hopper being switched to Crosby Coal:    
Now the PRR switcher has to pick up the Mississippi Central box from Oswego Manufacturing: