Jobs available on the Saint Louis Lines
Featuring Missouri Pacific St. Louis Terminal Division Operations
LOCAL JOBS
LIME TIME (MoPac RR)
Stir up some dust as you move cement hoppers through the loader, make some car moves between the cement plant, quarry, and local yard, then run the LIME TURN, a local that exchanges cars at the quarry, yard, cement plant, and ready-mix company. Don’t forget to stop by Ewing Yard to drop off and pick up a few (cars). This one should keep you busy.
Stress level/experience level = moderate. Lots of switching but you can work at your own pace.
STEELY FAN (MoPac RR & Private RR)
Gateway Steel, Pillsbury Milling, and Eastern Electric Wire need switching. Break down the inbound local that just arrived, make a few local moves, and then build the outbound local, returning with it to Ewing Ave. Yard. What could be easier?
Stress/experience level = medium. Lots of switching. Requires concentration, but you can work at your own pace.
LUCKY 7 (MoPac RR)
It’s all trailing point work as you depart Ewing Ave. Yard with the Zone 7 Local, to service customers located along the northern part of the Carondelet Sub. Turn your train at 23rd Street Yard, and work more trailing point spurs on your return trip. (more…)
Southbound: work Louisa Food Processing, American Can Company, MFA Fertilizer, and McGraw Oil.
Northbound: work Coca-Cola Bottling, Quality Beverage Distributing, and Westinghouse Electric.
Stress/experience level = medium. All trailing point spurs makes this one easy, but you will be tying up the main line, so plan ahead and work efficiently.
CHOW LINE (T.R.R.A., MoPac)
Two turns and some light yard work makes up this collection. The Zone 3 Local just arrived, so start your shift reporting to Zone 3 to switch the brewery lumber yard. Return the Zone 3 train to 23rd Street Yard, and classify your train. Finally, change hats (and railroads) and run the T.R.R.A.’s Purina Turn to work Purina Mills, Wharf Street customers, and stop by Ewing Yard to pick up and drop off before terminating your train Eastside.
Crew Information Cards: TRRA Purina Turn ….. Zone 3 ….. 23rd Street Yard
Stress/experience level = medium. Lots of switching. Requires concentration, but you can mostly work at your own pace.
ROAD JOBS
A/K/A THE ROAD RUNNER
You get to wear a lot of hats with this one-person position, which has 3 manifests and 3 yard transfers to run. Manifests include the westbound MoPac SKY from St. Louis to Kansas City, the eastbound MoPac KA from Kansas City to East St. Louis, and the eastbound Katy Railroad’s Train #102. (more…)
There are yard transfers from the Alton & Southern, Norfolk & Western, and Frisco railroads.
For some sessions the Katy will run westbound as Train #101 out of St. Louis.
Crew Information Cards – Manifest Trains: PS & SKY ….. KA ….. #101 & #102
Yard Transfers: A&S and N&W ….. SLSF
This job is mostly road work with a little light switching on several of the trains.
Stress/experience level = easy. Light switching. Run lots of trains, chat with other operators, and check out the snacks.
YARDMASTER & DISPATCHER JOBS
EWING AVE YARDMASTER (MoPac RR)
Be the boss of the yard as you control train movement at Ewing Ave. Yard, the most active yard on the layout, and exchange cars at Zone 5.
Brochure: Ewing Ave Yard Operations
Stress/experience level = medium. It’s a yard, but an easy one as yards go. 6 stub-ended classification tracks and 2 Arrival/Departure tracks, plus engine service and cabeeses/cabooses/crummies…
DISPATCHER
Efficiently control traffic flow over the layout from a computer-generated CTC Panel and facilitate effective train movement by communicating with yard and train crews. Easy-peasy. Have fun with it.
Stress/experience level = medium. Great job for someone wanting to learn dispatching.
