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.
- End