On the L&HR mainline, my plan is to have 3 to 4 L&HR freights in each direction, 2 L&NE freights in each direction, 1 PRR freight in each direction, the Reading unit coal train, and 2 to 3 L&HR locals. The EL is a special case since its freights didn't run out of Maybrook on the L&HR mainline. Rather, they ran over the New Haven to Campbell Hall NY, and then onto their own track. I will represent the EL presence in Maybrook with a short stretch of the New Haven line to Campbell Hall that then disappears into staging, with the EL coming in & going out of Maybrook on that line. I think the EL job will be short enough that the east Maybrook job will run it, but we'll see. I think I may also take some modeler's license and have a few New Haven local customers on that line, requiring a short New Haven local freight; maybe 4 to 6 cars. We'll see about that, too. In reality, the New Haven had no local traffic on the short stretch of track from Maybrook to Campbell Hall & hardly ever ran to Campbell Hall, even though that stretch of their track got a lot of use by foreign roads.
Going back to the L&HR mainline, the L&NE and PRR will be strictly overhead traffic running from west staging to Maybrook & return, although I am contemplating having one of the L&NE freights set off and pick up zinc cars at Franklin. Not switching the mine, just setting off & picking up from a storage track. I've got to contemplate that some more.
Along the mainline from east to west there will be full length passing sidings at Greycourt NY, Warwick NY, DeKays NJ, Franklin NJ, Sparta Jct NJ and Andover NJ.
Westbound L&HR freights will depart Maybrook unblocked, as it was in reality after the mid 1950s. At Warwick, they will be classified and blocked. Local delivery cars will be set off at Warwick, as will cars for the zinc mines at Franklin and Ogdensburg, and cars for interchange with the EL at Greycourt NY, the Susquehanna at Sparta Jct NJ and the EL at Andover NJ. Westbound through cars that have accumulated at Warwick from locals, zinc mine locals and road locals will be picked up at Warwick. At least initally all westbound cars will be waybilled for delivery to either the PRR at Phillipsburg or the CNJ at Allentown, and blocked accordingly. Later, if more complexity is desirable, the blocking can get more involved, with cars designated for interchange with the EL at Phillipsburg, as well as the LV at Easton and the RDG via the CNJ at Allentown.
Eastbound freights departing from Allentown or Phillipsburg enter the railroad from staging just west of Andover NJ. They will be blocked with setoffs for Warwick, to include local delivery cars, zinc mine cars, and cars for interchange at Greycourt, Sparta Jct and Andover, and through cars for Maybrook. At Warwick through freights will pick up cars destined for Maybrook. I'm thinking one of the L&HR through freights will consist of "hot" cars, mostly TOFC.
Well, these are my thoughts for through freight operations on the L&HR. This is all a work in progress, as we all know all model railroads are, & when operations actually start, everything is subject to change based on actual operational experience.
I'll write another post later about my plans for local operations on the L&HR in N scale.
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