TRRA Job Descriptions
With the exception of a few major holidays such as Christmas, Thanks- giving, and New Year’s Day the TRRA is a 24/7 railroad with jobs working around the clock. Listed below is a breakdown of TRRA jobs and the tasks they sometimes perform. As with all railroads, this is just a guideline as op- erations are subject to change based on operating conditions and customer’s needs.
Road Jobs: TRRA calls road crews for three shifts a day. The 100-series jobs have a 7:00 a.m. start time. The 200-series jobs have a 3:00 p.m. start time and 300-series jobs have an 11:00 p.m. start time. These jobs vary day to day depending on customer’s needs, traffic levels and tonnage. For instance, on a busy week day morning there may be as many as four jobs on duty, but on a slow Sunday afternoon only one job
may be called to work. Every day is dif- ferent. These jobs can do all heavy transfer work and bulk moves includ- ing grain, coal and iron ore trains. For instance, one morning a “101” job can deliver a transfer to Alton & Southern’s Gateway Yard while the next day it may deliver a loaded BNSF grain to Bulk Service East in East St. Louis, Ill. TRRA road jobs can work assign- ments to/from the following connec- tions/customers: A&S Gateway Yard at East St. Louis, Ill.; BNSF Linden- wood Yard at Shrewsbury, Mo.; NS Luther Yard at North St. Louis, Mo.; KCS Yard at East St. Louis, Ill.; CSX Rose Lake Yard at Fairmont City, Ill; FTR Railway River Yard at St. Louis, Mo.; U.S. Steel Granite City Works at Granite City, Ill., Bulk Service East at East St. Louis, Ill.; Bulk Service Tyler Street at St. Louis, Mo.; and UP 121st Street Yard
at St. Louis, Mo.
Again these above connections vary day to day, week to week. Some see dai- ly service while others may see trains only one or twice a week.
Local/Industry Jobs
“Granite” Job: On duty afternoons Monday-Friday, this job works the heavy industrialized stretch between Madison Yard and WR Tower in Gran- ite City, Ill. This job will switch and sort cars in a small yard called the “Carworks” which can be viewed from State Street in Madison, Ill. This job works the Port Harbor Railroad inter- change in addition to several busy cus- tomers which include St. Louis Reload Inc., Quality Rail Services, Metalico, Lilley Warehousing Inc., Granite City Pickling, American Colloid Co., Amsted Rail, A&K Railroad Materials, Velocity Services, Becker Iron & Metal, and Shapiro Brothers. This job rates a pair of GP38-3s and is often so busy they run the full eight hours on duty and are relived by a third-trick crew. “Mill” Job: On duty third shift Monday-Friday, and occasionally on weekends, this job covers industry on TRRA’s North Belt District and the large ADM Flour mill on the West Belt district at Shreve Avenue. Customers worked by this job include Affton Trucking, The Dial Corporation, Host- ess Brands Inc., and ADM Milling. Power is a pair of GP38-3s. “Central Belt” Job: On duty 0700 Monday-Friday this job works the heavily industrialized West Belt Dis- trict. In addition to industry work, this job handles interchange with Central Midland Railway and once a week runs to the western limits of the line to serve Hilex Ploy at Overland, Mo., usually midweek. The large list of customers served include RockTenn, P.Q. Corpo- ration, Kessler Containers Ltd., Ham- merts Iron, ADM Milling, ABB Power Transformer Company, Gateway Sheets, TCI Products Inc., Bunge East St. Louis, and Graham Packaging. Again, a pair of GP38-3s are the norm and this job makes a good photography target in the afternoon hours switching in the Kingshighway Boulevard and Union Avenue area. “Monsanto” Job: A Monday-Friday job on duty at 1500, this job works out of the east end of Madison Yard cover- ing industry on the Illinois Transfer and Oil Works Industrial Lead. Indus- tries worked include Afton Chemical, Feed Products, EJ-Jay Motor Trans-
LEFT: TRRA SD40-3 3001 leads a 101 transfer run to the Alton & Southern, passing Norfolk Southern train 25E at Willows Tower in East St. Louis, Ill., in February 2013.
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