AU - ORE FROM THE NARROW GAUGE MINES

DRIVE BOTH NARROW GAUGE AND MAINLINE LOCOMOTIVES TO TRANSPORT A SHIPMENT OF IRON ORE TO THE PACIFIC STEEL MILL AT PORT ROSS.
 

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Today's task is to oversee the movement of ore from a mountainside mine to the seaside steel mill.
There are three parts to today's activities.


1: Use the NG climax to get the ore down from the mine.

        - Finish shunting the orecars till they are underneath the chute at the Waituku tipple.
        - Once loaded pull the orecars back down to the Nasby Ore Company's base mill.

                *** Navigate To Trackmark ... Nasby NG Base Mill

        - pull the wagons through the unloading bay to empty.


2: Use a mainline 2-8-2 to haul the load to the Pacific Steel Mill.

Locomotive X39 is waiting in the yard with a consist of empty wagons ready for filling.

        - Pull the wagons through the loading bay stopping to fill with iron pellets.
        - once filled the load can be hauled to the Pacific Steel mill at Port Ross.

 

                *** Navigate Via Trackmark ... Picton Main 3

                *** Navigate To Trackmark ... Pacific Steel Ore Unload

 

        - At Pacific Steel take the wagons slowly through the ore siding and unload the iron pellets.

        - Leave Locomotive X39 with its empty wagons on a siding in the Pacific Steel yard.

 

                *** Navigate To Trackmark ... Pacific Steel Siding

3: Return to Collingwood with a load of steel coil for the MCK engineering factory.

You will see 2 gondolas and 2 flat cars to be loaded with steel coil.

        - Couple up the Class 10 loco to the front of the wagons
        - Shunt the wagons up the siding to the freight platform for complete the loading.

        - Couple up the caboose from X39
        - Pull the loaded wagons back to the Collingwood yard.


                *** Navigate To Trackmark ... Collingwood
Main 6


        - Move the engine to the back of the train

 

                *** Run Around Train

 

        - Shunt the wagons to MCK Engineering and unload

 

                *** Navigate To Trackmark ... MCK Engineering Siding

        - Leave the empty wagons in an empty siding at Collingwood and leave the engine on the turntable in the engine yard.



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