The Railroad Officials and the Yardmaster at “Consolidated” had a sit down to try to reduce the bottleneck of traffic tieing up the “Old State Light Depot” after the Spring OPs session on the KVRwy. Decisions were made to create a siding for out of service power and a small interchange or storage track for cars destined for the sidings on the “Cat Dump Branch”. Since we have 2 OPs Sessions scheduled in the next two months and the weather has started to moderate, work has begun to satisfy these improvements. The turnout was assembled at the “Southern Shops” (Assembly is describe in the “Articles” section of this website) http://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/view.php?id=58 and a MOW Extra was called in to service to haul the trackage to the location by the “KV Office”. Here you can see the MOW Extra waiting for clearance at the Southern Junction Interchange track.
A close look at the high sided gondola, shows the cargo inside.
Clearance is given and the MOW Extra heads “through the window” to “Southern Junction”.
Looking at the MOW Extra from the “Southern Junction” side.
A backing move, with the conductor standing on the back platform of the caboose, was used to get through the “Wye at Consolidated” and positioned the MOW Extra in the right direction for the entrance into “Consolidated Yard”.