15.8.08
Operations Friday 15 August 2008
Today we had a day of operations (in my lunch break, of course). This was the first time trains had been run 'properly' since the mass conversion of rollingstock to Micro Trains couplers.
The first job was to run the three trains set up for Wednesday's photo shoot back to the staging sidings (aka the 'hidden sidings', 'fiddle yard' or 'Dunmore yard': the fictitious junction with the main line and the rest of the world).
Above: The three trains still in place after the photo shoot on Wednesday night.
70xx led its train out first, followed by 4520 and her train and finally 4421 with the "Rapido-coupled" train.
Above: 70xx leads its train past the dairy siding and onto the embankment above the flood plain.
Above: 70xx leads its train onto the main line at Dunmore and then into the yard.
Above: 4520 departs with its train after the photo shoot. It had to wait at Jamberoo until the 'line clear' notification came from Dunmore.
Above: 4520 passing the dairy siding, viewed from the dairy factory.
4421 kept stalling and needs some workshop attention, we feel!
Above: The currently-unreliable 4421 leads its train of Rapido-coupler-equipped wagons back to Dunmore.
After this, it was time to run the first 'revenue' train with Micro Trains couplings. This train had the following tasks:
Above: 4520 sits at Dunmore with its train awaiting permission to enter the main line before taking the branch to Jamberoo. This view is taken from the parallel stretch of the Princes Highway.
Above: Boxcars wait to be shunted into the dairy siding. The tanker (obscured beyond the roof of the dairy factory) needs to have its brakes secured first, then be uncoupled and left on the main line, while the rest of the train draws forwards, the points are changed, and the train sets back onto the dairy siding to drop off these three wagons for loading.
Above: With the tanker uncoupled, the rest of the train draws forward.
Above: The three boxcars are shoved into place on the dairy siding.
Above: The train, viewed from above, shunting the dairy siding.
Above: Having recoupled to the tanker (and released its brakes), it is now shunted into its own siding, blocking busy Allowrie St in the process.
Above: The afternoon school bus from Kiama waits on Allowrie St, on the outskirts of town, for the fuel siding to be shunted.
Above: What's left of the train (ie, that which hasn't been dropped off in the diary and fuel sidings!) arrives at Jamberoo in this scene viewed from Tates Hill, on the other side of Hyam's Creek and the floodplain.
Above: This nifty way of uncoupling Micro Trains couplers uses toothpicks (unused, of course!). This idea came from the Australian_N_Scale yahoogroup, wlthough they suggested the use of skewers. Toothpicks were substituted only because they were in the 'bits box' below the layout!
Above: 4520 runs around its train at Jamberoo Station.
Above: 4520 pushes the two empty K-Wagons into the timber siding to be loaded with the finest output of the region's old-growth rainforests.
Above: 4520 drops the last boxcar at the back of Fredericks' General Store. Freddos' is made from photo paper until we get around to making the real one! It's modelled on the colour scheme of Freddos seen in the 1960s when it was a SCOOP store.
Above: The railway yard with all the wagons positioned for unloading or loading.
Above: 4520, running light, returns to Dunmore. This is not normally a light engine run but as the yeard was previously empty, there were no wagons to return to Dunmore.
The first job was to run the three trains set up for Wednesday's photo shoot back to the staging sidings (aka the 'hidden sidings', 'fiddle yard' or 'Dunmore yard': the fictitious junction with the main line and the rest of the world).
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70xx led its train out first, followed by 4520 and her train and finally 4421 with the "Rapido-coupled" train.
Above: 70xx leads its train past the dairy siding and onto the embankment above the flood plain.
Above: 70xx leads its train onto the main line at Dunmore and then into the yard.
Above: 4520 departs with its train after the photo shoot. It had to wait at Jamberoo until the 'line clear' notification came from Dunmore.
Above: 4520 passing the dairy siding, viewed from the dairy factory.
4421 kept stalling and needs some workshop attention, we feel!
Above: The currently-unreliable 4421 leads its train of Rapido-coupler-equipped wagons back to Dunmore.
After this, it was time to run the first 'revenue' train with Micro Trains couplings. This train had the following tasks:
- Place three empty boxcars at the dairy siding for loading with Jamberoo's finest butter and skim milk products for shipping to the distributer in Sydney (who, we understand from the history of the Jamberoo dairy factory, would mix the product with output from other local dairy co-ops and market them under the Allowrie brand. Allowrie is an English version of the same word from which we derive Illawarra.)
- Place the loaded oil tanker in the fuel siding for unloading.
- Place a loaded boxcar at the read of Fredericks' General Store for unloading with the finest of General Store dry goods.
- Place an empty cattle wagon at the cattle race on the end of the Goods Siding for loading.
- Place an empty K-Wagon at the Goods Siding for other local output.
- Place two empty K-wagons at the timber siding (formed by the extension of the run-around loop) for loading with timber cut in the Jamberoo Valley.
- Return light engine to Dunmore.
Above: 4520 sits at Dunmore with its train awaiting permission to enter the main line before taking the branch to Jamberoo. This view is taken from the parallel stretch of the Princes Highway.
Above: Boxcars wait to be shunted into the dairy siding. The tanker (obscured beyond the roof of the dairy factory) needs to have its brakes secured first, then be uncoupled and left on the main line, while the rest of the train draws forwards, the points are changed, and the train sets back onto the dairy siding to drop off these three wagons for loading.
Above: With the tanker uncoupled, the rest of the train draws forward.
Above: The three boxcars are shoved into place on the dairy siding.
Above: The train, viewed from above, shunting the dairy siding.
Above: Having recoupled to the tanker (and released its brakes), it is now shunted into its own siding, blocking busy Allowrie St in the process.
Above: The afternoon school bus from Kiama waits on Allowrie St, on the outskirts of town, for the fuel siding to be shunted.
Above: What's left of the train (ie, that which hasn't been dropped off in the diary and fuel sidings!) arrives at Jamberoo in this scene viewed from Tates Hill, on the other side of Hyam's Creek and the floodplain.
Above: This nifty way of uncoupling Micro Trains couplers uses toothpicks (unused, of course!). This idea came from the Australian_N_Scale yahoogroup, wlthough they suggested the use of skewers. Toothpicks were substituted only because they were in the 'bits box' below the layout!
Above: 4520 runs around its train at Jamberoo Station.
Above: 4520 pushes the two empty K-Wagons into the timber siding to be loaded with the finest output of the region's old-growth rainforests.
Above: 4520 drops the last boxcar at the back of Fredericks' General Store. Freddos' is made from photo paper until we get around to making the real one! It's modelled on the colour scheme of Freddos seen in the 1960s when it was a SCOOP store.
Above: The railway yard with all the wagons positioned for unloading or loading.
Above: 4520, running light, returns to Dunmore. This is not normally a light engine run but as the yeard was previously empty, there were no wagons to return to Dunmore.
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