Last week I took a little vacation for myself. Wednesday I drove down to the
FWWR
main office at Hodge Yard. After going into the office and talking to
some personnel about my situation and was able to talk to a dispatcher.
He took a couple of minutes to answer some questions I had about the
Everman area. The
FWWR had created a small office down there so crew could pick up paperwork for the day.
Here it is:
Nothing like using a electrical box for a office.
I was
told there were three basic jobs down there. First job he called a
Hustler, take cars to Hodge Yard and returns with any cars for customers
at
Everman. Second comes on duty in the afternoon and starts switching job at
Everman. The last comes on duty that evening and finishes switching jobs.
So I went down to
Everman to see if I could chase it around.
Arrived at the yard around 3:00 pm just as Switch Job was departing yard track 707, power for today was 2011 (
GP50), 2001 (
GP38-3) and 2007 (
GP38):
It consisted of 8 cars, 1 reefer and 7 boxcars. I'm assuming that they had already
sorted their cars for for the work they were about to do, which was to
switch
Whirlpool and Ben E
Kieth Warehouse. They shoved these cars to passing siding track 749 then took the switch to enter this area. Crossing the West Will Rodgers road crossing to start the work for Whirlpool:
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Work for Whirlpool:
1. Contact
Whirlpool to open roll up door so they could remove cars.
2. Took Whirlpool lead and p/u 2 cars in warehouse, take to Whirlpool run around and drop.
3. Pushed 8 cars to warehouse, leaving 7 box cars inside warehouse.
4. Uncoupled reefer from box cars, work completed.
5. With work finished contacted
Whirlpool and roll up door was closed.
6. Returned to run around with reefer and coupled up to cars pulled from
Whirlpool.
7. Uncoupled cars and ran around train to connect to other end of this three car train.
All this took approximately 1 hour, after this they went to switch Ben E Keith.
Work for Ben E Keith:
1. Now they pushed train to Ben E Keith, pushed past switch to drop 2 boxcars:
2. Pull past switch with reefer for Ben E
Kieth:
3. Pushed to warehouse, p/u second reefer and pushed to appropriate doors:
4. Dropped 2 cars and left site with motive power.
5. Pulled past switch and p/u 2 box cars again.
6. Shoved train back to yard, dropped 2 cars on track 709.
All this took approximately 1 hour.
I then spent some time observing then switch tank cars for Bunge Oils.
Work for Bunge Oil:
1. Made up 10 tank cars and precede to push to
Bunge.
2. Pulled 2 cars from track 702, then pulled 6 from track 701.
3. Pulled these 8 cars and dropped on track 709 with the two box cars from earlier.
4. Returned to track 701 and dropped 2 cars.
5. Returned to track 702 and dropped 8 cars.
6. Returned to track 709 and p/u 8 tank cars and 2 box cars and pull train down siding to clear
Bunge switches.
All this took approximately 1 1/2 hour.
That was enough for me for the day. headed home and spent the rest of my
vacaton working on layout.
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