How To Model Railroad Operations Switching instructions for Mat Thompson’s Swift meat packing plant

Switching instructions for Mat Thompson’s Swift meat packing plant

By Angela Cotey | October 11, 2013

| Last updated on January 12, 2021


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Mat Thompson’s Swift meat-packing plant ships and receives enough freight car traffic to warrant a full-time dedicated switch job on his HO scale Oregon Coast RR.

Refrigerator cars

  • Inbound iced reefers to the cooling track
  • Cooled reefers to plant Track 1 doors for loading
  • Outbound loaded reefers

Stockcars

  • Inbound loaded 40- foot and 50-foot cars
  • Outbound empty stockcars

Tank cars

  • Inbound fuel oil to fuel rack
  • Inbound propane to propane tank
  • Inbound vegetable oil to Track 2 Door 3
  • Inbound empty for animal by-products to Track 2 Door 3
  • Outbound empty fuel oil, propane and vegetable oil cars, and loaded animal by- products car

Boxcars

  • Inbound packing materials and equipment to Track 2 Doors 5, 6, and 7
  • Inbound empty hide car to Track 2 Door 4
  • Outbound loaded hide car
  • Outbound canned meats
  • Outbound empty boxcars

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