Overview. Station 5 - Preachers Slough
Layout Design Elements: Module part 1
Right of Way Module part 2
Scenery Module part 3
Electrical
Structures
Bridges
Station Maps
Station Plan
Engineering Diagram
Electrical Diagram
References
Operations. Passing siding. Location of one track spur to Y. Knott Lumber Company tie treatment plant and Cascade Pole.
Module 1
Highly Desired Elements:
- Passing siding.
- This is the holding area for through traffic originating from or destined to all UP/MILW points
Nice to have:
PRINT REFERENCES
Deer Canyon Station Map
Deer Canyon (DC)
Module 1
side picture
Module 2
side picture
Traffic mix. The Northern Pacific employee timetables listed a 75 car siding at Montesano, Washington. While i could not find the siding on topographical maps of the era, i did find a Schafer Logging Company spur at Brady (first town east of Montesano). This spur paralleled the NP main line for about a mile before turning south to what appears to be a log dump at the Chehelis River. Some creative license (a couple of switches) turns this spur into an interchange and suggests the maximum number of carloads interchanged and moved to industries along the line. Operationally that would allow the various railroads to operate as follows:
· WWSL operates 5 days per week, and moves about 50 carloads a day. Yard switchers, Transfers and Way freights (Turns).
· OPLC operates 5 days per week and moves 30 carloads a day. Yard switcher and logging trains.
· CLC operates 5 days per week and moves about 30 carloads a day. Yard switcher.
· NP, MILW, and UP operate 6 days per week and move about 50 carloads a day. Transfer runs.
More about the operations below.
Stations. Geographically there are four main town locations identified on the map.
· Montesano (MO). Montesano is simulated by a staging area. Its main function is to stage the NP, MILW and UP transfers which come from Hoquiam, Washington to work the interchange tracks at Montesano.
· South Montesano (SM). South Montesano is the division point and main yard for the WWSL. SM has a two track arrival and departure yard, a three track classification yard. Yardmaster classifies North and Southbound WWSL trains, Class 1 transfers, and picks up and delivers cars at local industrial spurs.
· Wickwood (WK). I found Wickwood on a map in Warren Wings A Northwest Rails Pictorial. Nothing comes up today in a Google search so i suspect it was a Clemens Logging Company town. I substituted the real location for Arctic WA for the fictional Wickwood. Makes a perfect location for a freelanced pulp and paper mill and other railroad serviced activities.
· Headquarters (OP). If Clemons Logging Company could have a company town so could the Olympic Peninsula Logging Company. Makes a perfect location for a lumber milling operation.
Major Stand-alone Industry locations. Logging
companies in the Gray's Harbor area were single resource companies. My
interjection of the Western Washington Short Line into the economic history of
the county allowed me the latitude of adding additional natural resource
industries into the layout. Two industries in particular were coal mining and
quarry operations, and the WWSL corporate history identifies their addition
during the Great Depression era when logging activities in the county were at
an all time low.
· Coal Grove. Location of the O. K. Coal Company. Justified by the existence of coal reserves in the King County (Seattle) area (Pacific Coast Railroad) and a large workable seam found in Pierce County (Tacoma) area.
· Sand and Gravel. Location of the Northwest Portland Cement quarry. Justified by the dam building in the Pacific Northwest (Grand Coulee Dam) during the Great Depression. Significant demand for sand and gravel and limestone for the production of concrete.
Traffic Patterns.
· 1st Division (Geographic North). Traffic pattern is primarily empties in and loads out for coal, lumber and stone. OPLC logging trains between Camp , Headquarters and Camp 1 based on trackage rights.
· 2nd Division (Geographic South). Traffic pattern is primarily loads in and empties out for the paper mill and power plants.
Montesano area topographic 1940
Coal and Coal Mining in Washington State by Steven H.
Green
Coal in the
Puget Sound Region by Laura McCarty
Types of Trains
WWSL operates 5 days per week, and moves about 50 carloads a day. Yard
switchers, Transfers and Way freights (Turns).
· OPLC operates 5 days per week and moves 30 carloads a day. Yard switcher and
logging trains.
· CLC operates 5 days per week and moves about 30 carloads a day. Yard
switcher.
· NP, MILW, and UP operate 6 days per week and move about 50 carloads a day.
Transfer runs.
More about the operations below.
Traffic mix. While i could not find the siding on
topographical maps of the era, i did find a Schafer Logging Company spur at
Brady (first town east of Montesano). This spur paralleled the NP main line for
about a mile before turning south to what appears to be a log dump at the
Chehelis River. Some creative license (a couple of switches) turns this spur
into an interchange and suggests the maximum number of carloads interchanged
and moved to industries along the line. Operationally that would allow the various
railroads to operate as follows:
· WWSL operates 5 days per week, and moves about 50 carloads a day. Yard
switchers, Transfers and Way freights (Turns).
· OPLC operates 5 days per week and moves 30 carloads a day. Yard switcher and
logging trains.
· CLC operates 5 days per week and moves about 30 carloads a day. Yard
switcher.
· NP, MILW, and UP operate 6 days per week and move about 50 carloads a day.
Transfer runs.
Traffic pattern would be primarily empties in and loads out for coal, lumber and
stone customers. For the pulp and paper mill and local switching customers, it
is generally reversed - loads in and empties out. This would require an
interchange with the Class 1s.
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