DAR Consists for Activities and Multiplayer

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Like I have so much time as it is but....

Even though I can't build activities I know a lot of the work is building realistic consists with realistic waybills. To that end I'd like to create some consists and waybills for them for future considerations in either multiplayer or activity based simulations.

So, I'm looking at the 1975 Wheel Report and I noticed that on the intro worksheet that this report is a derivation of in and outbound Truro consist sheets that you must had had. Can you share the original consist sheets?

Do you have any traffic in or outbound to Halifax or to and from the Middleton interchange?

I'll name the consists YYYYMMDD_TRxx where obviously the TRxx is the train number and where TR would be replaced by EXxxxx for extras with the xxxx being the lead engine number.

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

Guess this is directed at me...

Andrew Blackburn in Truro got a hold of the consists before VIA took over the station there. They were just in a box, each month from 1975 was rolled up together and an elastic keeped them together. He was kind enough to send three months worth of them to me and I went through and tried to decipher them and put things in some kind of order that would give me an idea what traffic was rolling on the line back then. This covered only traffic from CN in Truro and nothing out of Halifax Dartmouth which probably accounted for as much traffic as Truro provided. After I was finished compiling the information I sent the consists back to Andrew and a few months later, he sent the balance.

So, no scans, no Halifax traffic.

As far as I've read the only serious interchange to happen in Middleton was the woodchips to and from the Bowater Pulp and Paper mill near Bridgewater. CN did have terminal switching rights to deliver cars in Middleton which they did exercise but that was pretty much gone by the '70s. In the '50s they ran their train as a mixed, backed into the Middleton station, switched a couple of cars and headed to Bridgetown on their own line and back.

Paul

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Wow. That was nice of Andrew. Pity though we don't have the consist info though. Would be very authentic!

[Paul Charland]

A blank sheet would have been nice to scan if anything else but if you have access to one from CP Rail, that;s what they were using. These were all filled in with hand writing and believe me, some were better then others!

Maybe in a few weeks once I post the route I'll go on line and find one and reproduce it in Word.

Paul