Wingedfoot Paper: Part 4

 I always wanted a Western Maryland presence on the layout. This idea was copied directly from Tony Koester’s Allegheny Midland. After spending some time with a railroad Atlas I could readily see why Tony chose Durban as his eastern end point. It connected end to end  with the WM.

On AIR1 I made the connection poorly. I chose Webster Springs for my connection because I liked the name. WM trains connected with the AIR at WM  in Webster Springs. There was no area where a WM switcher worked however. WM trains just continued over the AIR, traveling over the entire layout until they exited off-layout into West Staging.

I did not like all this run through power. I’m planning a strict separation between WM and AIR, and putting an end to all those run through trains. However on AIR 2 I’m planning to build a length of parallel track, WM/AIR, and put the Wingedfoot Paper plant on the WM.

WM trains will enter the layout at the extreme east end of the layout. They will either, most often, terminate in Chatsworth Yard as a transfer run

-OR-

one train per day, run over WM tracks to Wingedfoot and switch the paper mill or the cement plant.

If you have operated on Brian Wolfe’s WM layout you may have seen his model of Westvaco Paper. It creates a canyon in which the main line passes, the mill job must cross back and forth working the mill. It looks great and is a lot of fun. I hope to simulate this at my Wingedfoot paper mill. Presently I’m planning to place the pulp wood/ wood chip receiving  as well as the coal receiving on the aisle side and the mill buildings will be on the back drop side. Bridge structures, concealing conveyors, will cross the main tracks connecting the two halves of the plant. 

The main track, in fact two main tracks, AIR and WM, will run down the middle. 

I plan this same design for the cement plant which will be located adjacent, so at Wingedfoot there will be a long canyon of structures with the double track main line running down the middle. 

Wingedfoot paper will probably be a Kraft mill, producing Kraft paper, brown paper bags, card stock for card board, pulp for export to other nearby mills. Things of that nature as opposed to finished paper, or newsprint. 

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