Jobs available on the Saint Louis Lines
Featuring Missouri Pacific St. Louis Terminal Division Operations
LOCAL JOBS
LIME TIME (MoPac RR)
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.
Crew Information Card Zone 10 Switching
Crew Information Card Zone 10 Turn
STEELY FAN (MoPac RR & Private RR)
Gateway Steel, Pillsbury Milling, and Eastern Electric Wire need switching. Break down the inbound local and then build the outbound local, returning with the outbound to Ewing Ave. Yard.
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. Turns your train at 23rd Street Yard, and service more customers 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.
CHOW LINE (T.R.R.A., MoPac)
Two turns and some light yard work make up this set of jobs. First, run the T.R.R.A.’s Purina Turn to exchange cars for Purina Mills and Wharf Street customers. Then change railroads to work Mopac’s Zone 3 customers: Anheuser-Busch and Heist Lumber. Return the Zone 3 train to 23rd Street Yard, and classify your train plus any cars waiting for you there
Crew Information Cards: Purina Turn ….. Zone 3 ….. 23rd Street Yard
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: SKY ….. KA ….. #102 …. #101 —– Yard Transfers: N&W ….. A&S ….. SLSF
YARDMASTER & DISPATCHER JOBS
EWING AVE YARDMASTER (MoPac RR)
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
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.
