The Virtual Interchange and Shipping Office

[Fergmiester]

Halt of Shipment Notice

Due to a catastrophic wreck on the newly constructed upper pass, the annual shipment of "Santa's Christmas Coal" will not be shipped.

The wreck was a result of faulty ballast which resulted in the Double headed train leaving the rails. 601 Challenger derailing on the "Gut" bridge and the Allegheny plunging 50' into the Bone Yard. The result of this resulted in the 50 car train of 34' hoppers and 70 ton Ballast cars racing down a 6% double "S" curve line for a considerable length.

When asked as to what the outcome of the wreck was the CEO was heard saying...

"What a M.E.S.S."[:I]

Updates to follow.

Fergie

[Anonymous]

I'll be able to do your concrete ties. I will grind up the rocks later and send to you. How many cars do you want? If you want a contract I'll build a building to mass produce them.

[JPowell]

Attention all -
I'm in need of a small shipment of concrete and plastic ties for a trial basis. If they work well, I may want to enter into a contract with said supplier(s) for retrofitting my yard with them.

//signed//
John Powell
President / CEO
CNY Rail Corp

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

LS&I, Yeah, this is a perment shipment. I have a lumber mill in town that serves local contractors, but they needed a souce for pulpwood. I see I have found it now!

OK the first shipment should be get to Escanaba soon. They will get sorted in to the Esky-Green Bay Train later today.

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises
LSIModeler

I'll take some cabooses. How many you got? I'll go ahead & take the 10 all-doors, I'll figure out something to do with them.

There 7 cabooses. I send the all-doors. They will get on the SORE3 tomorrow sand will arrive at the Escanaba Gladstone Yard for sorting. They should arrive by saturday.

[Anonymous]

ok so recieved an email from Catepillar Heavy equipment stating that the contract is a go for after xmas and that they will send me what is going to be shipped and when its coming, the email stated that there will be roughly 30-50 loaded flatbed cars full of parts and assembled and partly assembled equipment so just a heads up and to make some peoples holiday enjoy.

Also i will be in talks with Volvo Heavy Equipment after the holiday for more equipment shipments so every one have a great holiday.

Nick

[GDRMCo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Counter Weight

The stone quarry is willing to cycle one peice of equiptment per week (4 peices total) back to rebuild while a loaner is sent on lease. I see it will take about 3 months to complete the evolution if I can find a provider of heavy overhauling service that is capable of doing one peice of equiptment every 2 weeks.

I have expanded my small production of Kubota Tractor account to enable servicing of two other shops who needs parts. At this time I see 6 Boxcar loads (PER customer) per week. So the first two providers of heavy equiptment who needs parts and inventory who asks for it will get 6 Boxcars each per week. I have set out a total of 12 boxcars for this service.

Finally I am seeking a steel mill to provide me with 4 flat load's of 16 inch steel plate to be used as targets weekly.

Hey CW, GDRMB can do the rebuilding for you in 2 weeks per 2 peices of equipment. Just send em to Townsville Port and we'll do the rest.
O and if anyone is in need of new locomotives to meet EPA Tier II emission standards we currently offer 3 models, a small 3500hp unit, a larger 4400hp unit and a 6000hp unit, all six-axle road switchers.
Mitchell

[twcenterprises]

nharrison21

OK, send the F's. Will send 2 RS3's next week.

LSIModeler

I'll take some cabooses. How many you got? I'll go ahead & take the 10 all-doors, I'll figure out something to do with them.

Brad

[Anonymous]

The stone quarry is willing to cycle one peice of equiptment per week (4 peices total) back to rebuild while a loaner is sent on lease. I see it will take about 3 months to complete the evolution if I can find a provider of heavy overhauling service that is capable of doing one peice of equiptment every 2 weeks.

I have expanded my small production of Kubota Tractor account to enable servicing of two other shops who needs parts. At this time I see 6 Boxcar loads (PER customer) per week. So the first two providers of heavy equiptment who needs parts and inventory who asks for it will get 6 Boxcars each per week. I have set out a total of 12 boxcars for this service.

Finally I am seeking a steel mill to provide me with 4 flat load's of 16 inch steel plate to be used as targets weekly.

[Noah Hofrichter]

LS&I, Yeah, this is a perment shipment. I have a lumber mill in town that serves local contractors, but they needed a souce for pulpwood. I see I have found it now!

Nick, make sure you do let us go what you'll have for heavy equipment. In Rivermoor, there is a new quarry going in(the buildings are going up over the winter to they can start mining right away in the spring) that needs a couple of front end loaders, backhoes, and bulldozers.

Noah

[Anonymous]

Oh boy, lookas like opperturnity for hydraulic, parts, cylinders, fittings and tread (Or wheel nuts and bolts)

Give me a few days and I'll see what I can come up with.

[Anonymous]

so far some massive graders, dumptrucks front loaders, bulldozers, cranes just massive construction equipment, not sure fully on all im recieving but will update it after the holidays

[Anonymous]

What kind heavy equipment? Any front end loaders and the sort? I could use some for my mines. Mine getting pretty old.

[Anonymous]

its a great program for layout design for the prototypical person

after xmas my line will be recieving a vast amount of automobiles and heavy equipment, amounts, types, and other info will all be further displayed just a FYI

Nick

[Anonymous]

You can go to www.keyhole.com and download Google Earth. Google owns Keyhole.

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by nharrison21

yeah fergie was kinda hard firguring out how to put u on the map but i tried hahaha

Ahhh but you had me in a warmer climate. I could only wish!

Can you send me a link for those maps?

[Anonymous]

yeah fergie was kinda hard firguring out how to put u on the map but i tried hahaha

[Fergmiester]

Nick: you were slightly off the mark on locale. However not to worry I finally found a downloadable map of Nova Scotia! Though I prefer the posted version.



Sheet Harbour is an Interchange for MESS and Maritime Trunk (DER 5887)
Truro is an interchange between MESS and CN
Strait of Canso (Town of Mulgrave is our Seaport)can handle VLCC's

Fergie

JP Thanks for the Green Lights So no coal for you!

[Anonymous]

ok lets see here, so atleast no one "hates" the maps just kidding , but ill try and make the modifacations if possible,

TWCEnterprices

sorry just taking a glimpse and it looks like two, lets see all are light, 1 of them is goin to the museum in my town 2 work and 4 dont if u want them ill have them shipped out today since there will be nothing holding them back for shipment. also if u have any stock that no one is taking i take it, im gonna stock up on everything no one wants and try to be a good size depot

the 44 tonner will ship on its own on monday but my office will be closed. an engineer is using it to get home for the holidays so its a bonus for him hahaha

Nick

[Anonymous]

The cabooses are lettered for the LS&I so are the thrall all-doors. Here is a picture of the caboose.

[twcenterprises]

nharrison21

On the F7's, are they ballasted or "light"? I have an old bridge that needs light-footed engines and these might be perfect. If so, I'd take all of them, even the dead ones for "parts".

Next week, in anticipation of our 44 tonner returning, we expect to send 2 of 4 RS3's for overhaul. Upon their return, the next 2 will ship out. Afterward, we will look into our F units.

Please note the correct spelling is TWCEnterprises, no "o".

Geographically, I don't cover QUITE that much territory. My line runs from Gainesville north to Cleveland, and branches off to Dahlonega. About 55 miles of track.

LSIModeler

What kind of cabooses you got? We still use 'em. As for the "all-door", well, they can be great starting points for all kinds of conversions (Southern Railway had bunches of them and converted nearly all of them into various other things; pulpwood racks, coil cars, you name it.)

JPowell

OK, the gons have been pulled from the interchange track, we will ship out the first batch of treated crossties on New Year's Weekend, for arrival on or around the third of Jan.

Brad

[Anonymous]

Nice maps.

Here is mine.

I moved the Wheeling Interchange to Cumberland Md due to excessive hog law problems.

http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/8742/fallsvalleyrailroadrouting8pm.jpg

I could not get it to come up properly due to the URL getting trashed by it's long length on this post box.

In my fictional railroad that I have planned in HO scale, the trains will come out of staging (Interchanges) and go to the main yard. There they get sorted into locals to serve several towns that do the pick ups and set outs. Traffic that are bridge traffic simply go thru with Helper service or even fuel/water stop.

Enjoy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

LS&I, can I get 3 cars of pulpwood a week? My interchange facilities are located in Green Bay WI, or Oshkosh, WI(the ARK is a shortline) so if you can ship them via WC They’ll be sure to get to me.

OK I will get an engineer to pick them tommorow and they should arrive maybe by thursday. Will this be permament

[Noah Hofrichter]

LS&I, can I get 3 cars of pulpwood a week? My interchange facilities are located in Green Bay WI, or Oshkosh, WI(the ARK is a shortline) so if you can ship them via WC They’ll be sure to get to me.

Nick, as far as my map goes, you are close, your in the right state, but you made the ARK look more like an empire then it really is. It’s a shortline, so my track age is basically a dot on a map as big as you have. I run between Appleton and Oshkosh WI, by way of a little neighborhood called Rivermoor. If were to draw a line between Green Bay and Oshkosh WI, you would be close enough. If you made a “C” from Appleton, WI, around the lake that it there, and down to Oshkosh WI, you would be even closer yet.

Also note that we are technically part of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad. So, if you see this map: http://www.wsorrailroad.com/images/sysmap3a.gif, you will note that Oshkosh is at the end of the WSOR’s line. If you add a line North from Oshko***owards the top of Winnebago county, this would be considered the fictional ARK line. If you want to rough out the whole WSOR system too you can, as it is technically part of the ARK, but just the line from Oshko***o Green Bay described in the last paragraph would be good enough.

Noah

P.S. I got to get me Google earth, it sure looks like it would work well for things like route planning.....

[Anonymous]

sorry LSI i put u in the north east corner of indiana im an idiot

[Anonymous]

I also need supplies for making paper (tank cars and box cars.) I have 2 hungry paper mills. I also export paper and limestone.

[Anonymous]

I have a detailed version.

[Anonymous]

I have created my map. Green Bay, Duluth, Quinnsac, Sault Saint Marie, Escanaba, Marquette, Ishpeming, Negaunne

[Anonymous]

Where is my trackage. Mine is supposed to be in the upper peninsula in Michigan. Would you like me to make the map?

[Anonymous]

thanks LSI ive already done that im just getting a few more details to help out the maps are coming out ok right now its just a slow process getting everyones locations that map is big to fit all locations so the raillines ar sort of generalized to make it easy to read. if there is major probs with your please let me know.

Nick
Counter Weight


Twocenterprises


Fergie


Inch53


Nharrison21


Noah


Sierrarr


LSI



Please bear with me if there are any mistakes but i think this will help everyone out visually, any comments, shoot them at me

Nick

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPowell

Quick note to nharrison - I'm in the Syracuse NY area. If you refer back to pages 1-3, you'll see where everyone that came to this thread at the beginning, has posted their locations, along with connections, etc.

I have a connection at in ishpeming/negaunne that goes to escanaba. A Connection that goes from Rebublic to E&LS Channing, Michigan. A CN Connection from Rebublic to Nestoria. Go here to see most of all of my tracks (my tracks are in the Upper Peninsula)http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Maps/Counties/52-MarquetteCoEastMap.htm