The Mixed train
Freight Train
Industries
Panoramas
Planning the conversion work
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Freight trains staring from the left hand fiddle yard will run onto board one and switch the new factory The factory siding will run back into the fiddle yard allowing empties in/loads out. The train will then run carefully over the wooden bridge that would creak if it could. The factory on board three would be served by freights heading in the other direction. On the fourth board the freight could continue down the main or diverge onto the branch. Riverside mine will load cars on the branch. Loading on a running line is unusual in the UK but happened more frequently in the rural USA because of the lower train frequency. There will be a passenger service possibly a mixed train serving the flag stops (halts). Flag stops were and still are on the Alaskan Railroad provided for farms and hamlets.
The Mixed train
Switching the Atlas Colour Works
Crossing the road/rail bridge
Over the High Bridge
Stopping at Water Run flag stop
Dry Run Bridge
Going down the main and off scene
Switching the Atlas Colour Works
The siding runs through the works onto the fiddle yard to allow fulls in/empties
out
Crossing the road/rail bridge
Over the High Bridge
Stopping at Water Run flag stop
Dry Run Bridge
Going down the main and off scene
Freight Train
Coming on scene
Switching Resolute Mill Products
Over the high Bridge
Next the road/rail bridge
Going off scene
Coming on scene
Switching Resolute Mill Products
Over the High Bridge
Next the road/rail bridge
Going off scene
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Industries
Atlas Color Works
Resolute Mill Products
Riverside mine
Atlas Color Works
The color works produces paint from
minerals such as ochre and materials such as charcoal. Processing is a mix of
washing to remove grit, drying, heating, and grinding to ‘flour’. The ‘flour’ is
then mixed with other material such as gypsum, raw linseed oil, and thinner to
produced paint. The works also grinds mineral such as coal to ‘flour’ to be used
as fillers. Coal ‘flour’ is used in the paper and fibreboard industries and in
drills. The works receives tins and packaging.
For further details about paint see
http://chestofbooks.com/home-improvement/repairs/painting/Paint-Making-Color-Grinding/Venetian-Red.html
Resolute Mill Products
Riverside mine - now defunct
Panoramas