A pickup service from Peterborough to Gladstone servicing the grain storage silos at Yongala, Jamestown and Caltowie. |
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The Historical Bit
The Terowie-Peterborough-Quorn Line was roughly the dividing line in the state of South Australia between the grain producing region and the cattle and sheep grazing region. West of the line there was enough rain to produce one crop of grain each year. East of the line the country was too dry for crops and could only be used for grazing.
The grain storage silos followed this pattern with many of the locations west of Peterborough (towards Port Pirie) equipped with grain loaders while locations east (towards Broken Hill) had only livestock loading facilities.
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Getting Started:
- If you have already closed the opening message window then the first step is to pause the session by pressing the P key.
- Next locate your loco. Either:-
- Open the Finder Tool (press Ctrl F ) and type, in the Name field, the name of the loco. For example SAR T 23 (or just T 23 should be enough). Click the tick icon, OR
- Open the Driver List (bottom left of the screen) and scroll through the driver names to find the driver of your selected loco (e.g. Driver 23 for SAR T 23). Click the Eye icon for the selected driver to jump to the loco.
- Take a few moments to get your bearings. Click (this link will open in this window) to show the location details and track plans for Gladstone. In each location details page:-
- the tab gives an overall summary of each location with a "potted" history (where available).
- the tab reveals the invisible Track Marks for Drive To commands.
- the tab lists all active industries and their commodities.
- the tab describes the names, locations and settings of all junction switches as well as some switch sets you may want to use.
- Each location details page has direct links to the adjacent locations so you can explore along the route.
- When you are ready to start, reload the Peterborough Base Session page (click the Scenarios button on your current location page) and select this Scenario again or just use the Back button on your browser - whichever is quicker.
- Switch back to Driver Mode and either close the opening message window or press the P key to start the session.
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Tutorial:
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A tutorial on using these scenarios is provided in the link on the left. The link will open in this window |
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Orders:
- Move your selected loco into the Peterborough Car Shed and couple to the Guard Van stored there.
- Proceed to Yongala.
- At Yongala pickup the loaded WHE grain wagons on the Grain siding
- Proceed to Jamestown.
- At Jamestown pickup the loaded WHE grain wagons on the Goods Yard road
- Proceed to Caltowie.
- At Caltowie pickup the loaded WHE grain wagons on the Grain siding
- Proceed to Gladstone
- At Gladstone deliver the wagons to a storage siding at the Grain Loader
- Shunt the Guard Van to one of the storage sidings near the Wool Transfer Dock and stable
- Refuel the loco (if required) at the Gladstone Loco Depot
- Stable the loco in the Depot
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This page was created by Trainz user pware in January 2022 and was last updated as shown below.