Modeling Information
See Circular 8.9 Metal Scrap Operations for more information.
The WWSL
The Station Agent will identify the need for a MOW metal scrap train. The agent will coordinate MOW movement with the Dispatcher.
The WWSL will use a Work Extra to conduct metal scrap recovery. The MOW department has a crane car with a giant electro-magnet, as well as several gondola cars.
See Train Information Card
A rare fourth type of work train contained a crane car with a giant electro-magnet, as well as several gon-dola cars. It went along the right-of-way after some new rail had been laid, new sidings put in, bridges had been built, or perhaps other work had been done. It picked up anything metal along the right-of-way that was made out of steel--things like short pieces of rail that had been cut out to fit around the switches, buckets or piles of spikes, piles of tie plates, etc. I may have seen one of these one time. If both gondola cars on either side of the crane car got full, the train would have to go to some siding somewhere, and get an empty one or two next to the crane again. Like the other work trains, it was not much work for the train crew other than the engineer.
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