Visiting Paul Novak’s Gold Creek Railway
which give the next destination for the cars. After moving on to the second desti- nation the waybill is separated from the car card and the car returns back to staging. At each switching area operators col- lect outbound cars and spot the inbound cars at industries according to what is on the waybill. Operators in each area then assemble the outbound cars; some of them will be assigned to other switching areas and some will return to staging. The outbound cars can either be taken by the operator over the railroad and dropped off at each switching location without spotting them or let the occa- sional peddler move the cars to the other switching areas. At the next operating session the operator assigned to each switching area will then spot those cars along with the cars they brought out from staging.
A Gold Creek Mikado leads a train of empty hoppers past the Polson Meats cattle pens (above). Clanche’s Coal, the area’s main coal dealer (below), has just unloaded a pair of hoppers. An Alco RS-3 works the freight depot in the Terminal Switching district (page 67, top). We get a better view of the same locomotive as it crosses the Gold Creek Valley bridge on it was to Klinkberg (page 67, bottom) with the local freight.
tion the cars return to staging. When an operator takes their train from staging, all of their waybills and cars are as-
signed to only one switching area on the layout. After the inbound cars are spot- ted operators flip over the waybills,
The Gold Creek Railway was envi- sioned as line set in Montana connect- ing with the Chicago & North Western on the east end and the Milwaukee Road on the west end. The setting is in the 1950’s, which allows us to operate early diesels from all of the major man- ufacturers. Scenery is a combination of hard shell plaster over screen or hand shaped foam. The handlaid track is on either Homasote®
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