0perations on the Kings Port Division

[Ralph]

The last work to be done is the "Steel Job" which is simply a loco picking up various cars at Kings Port Steel and pulling them to Williams Yard (i.e. pulling them as far as the tracks I call the entrance to Williams Yard since the yard itself is not actually on the layout.)


This Bachmann Spectrum GP35 runs surprisingly smoothly at slow speeds over the complex track at Kings Port Steel.

Work begins by pulling a string of loaded covered steel coil gons. I've always like these peculiar "clam shell" cars which I understand were used internally at Bethlehem steel. I'm not sure they actually got on the road. I like them, however, so on my road they do travel a bit.




Here is an open one with a load inside. I made these coils out of paper, based on an article in Model Railroader.


Empty scrap metal gons are also pulled.


Scrap gons are unloaded here...