OS Omaha 2025, part 3

With half the session over with, the next train that runs will be the NB #776.  The crew will pull the fresh power from the house and tie onto the cars on track #2 and head north.

As the train runs north, they are running R to L on the schematics.

Before 776 leaves Winnfield, they are instructed to shuffle some MOW cars that are sitting on the old main line (below the Union Scrap siding).  They need to move the rear car to the right) to front of the cars (on the left), this is more of an exercise that keeps the journals from freezing up as they sit waiting for use.  There are instructions for this move on the switch list.

Here at Ruston, the NB 776 will reach back into the Jct. and pick up any cars that the ICG left after the 775 left Ruston.

At this point before the #776 gets to El Dorado, train #35 will leave Little Rock and head south meeting the #776 at El Dorado.

  

At Haskell, AR, not only does the 776 work the interchange, it also works the Gavilon Fertilizer complex.  In doing both of these moves, 776 is allowed to run on the trackage that leads to Malvern.

Once finished in Haskell, the crew runs to Little Rock where they cut the caboose off on the engine facility loop and parks their train back on track #2 from where they started.  Then they cut the power off and return it to the fuel pit.

Now the yard switcher goes to work and retrieves the caboose. 

While this is going on in the yard, the Malvern PM crew pulls cars in Malvern and runs to Haskell, works the interchange and returns to Malvern to spots those cars and then the session draws to a close.