NEB&W Guide to Operations - Table Of Contents

Last Update: 2008-11-20

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• NEB&W Operations
  • Electrical System
    • NEB&W DCC Primer
  • Cleaning Track
• Delaware & Hudson Operations
• Rutland Operations
• Troy Union RR Operations
• New York Central Operations
• Signaling
• Dispatcher's Panel

Rutland RR Operations

• 1938 Commodity Report, part 1
  
• 1938 Commodity Report, part 2
  This report shows the proportional traffic between originating traffic, terminating traffic, local traffic and through traffic, because it gives these numbers in tons. The second to last column gives the total number of carloads (which is what is most important to modelers), and this figure can be divided by the proportions to get an idea of what went where. I find it most useful to further divide this number by either 365 to get the average daily traffic, or by 52 or even 12, to get a weekly or monthly figure, if the total is small. Thus 100 carloads is a lot, but it is only two cars a week on average.
  And less you think the Rutland had oil refineries on line, in some cases "originating on line" means it was pumped into a tank car from a barge or maybe even another none-railroad supply.

• Conductor Shakespeare's notebook, sample page, 1944, for The Mount Royal.

• Rutland Milk Trains

• 1937 Employees Time Table No. 97.
  • [Northbound Main timetable.]
  • [Southbound Main timetable.]
  • [Bellows Falls Sub timetable.]
  • [Addison Branch timetable. (Notice that train No. 457 is stated as superior to No. 458, but in practice, these are the same train!)]

• Water & Coal Stops
  In one of Bob Nimke's books on the Rutland, he included as a bonus a large fold-out map of the entire system, dated 1923. Every water tank was indicated, along with the gallonage, and the daily average consumption. Unfortunately, the numbers were handwritten, and I can't make them all out.
  There were 32 watering spots on the just over 400 miles system, or on average 12.5 miles apart. However, they weren't spaced evenly.
  The following are the scenes we model, with the total capacity and daily use in gallons:
  • Rutland, VT 50,000, 160,000
  • Gassetts, VT 40,000, 30,000
  • Summit, VT 13,500, 1,000
  • Proctor, VT 8,000, 3,000
  • N. Bennington, VT 50,000, 10,000
  • South Hero, VT 50,000, 10,000
  • Vergennes, VT 50,000, 27,000
  • Burlington, VT 2x50,000, 100,000
  The water tower at Gassetts was located next to the depot, but we are only modeling the talc plant from this location, so we aren't modeling a tank in this scene.
  The Burlington, VT scene on our layout is just of some of the industries, and not the depot area. The high water consumption could also be due in part that the station was a Union one, with the Central Vermont also using it.
  The Summit facility was just a standpipe, with the tank somewhere far enough away to be out of sight. We haven't included the standpipe. Chester, VT got a new small tank when it became the end point of Steamtown runs in the mid-'60's.

• Rutland Wayfreights as they might apply to the NEB&W

Troy Union RR Operations

• Timetable, 1915
  
• Timetable, 1953
  
• Wallace Rudd's personal account, 1929

New York Central Operations

• A Central milk train, southbound at Rensselaer, NY. Photo c. early 1950's by Gerrit Bruins. Note the two NYC converted troop sleeper baggage cars. The orange-striped car is unknown (Milwaukee?).
  • NYC milk train.]

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