The Montour Railroad used it's own hoppers to take coal from the mines to the Champion Coal Company's coal cleaning facility. The cleaned coal was loaded onto foreign road hoppers (P&LE, B&O, PRR, etc.) and delivered to the interchanges. That got me thinking. Could the basic concept be used for other products? The end result is the Realtrax Oil City Railroad (OCRR).
1. A locomotive retrieves foreign road tankers from the "interchange" inside the long tunnel on the right.
2. The empty foreign cars are deposited at the refinery on their designated track.
3. The locomotive then takes a string of OCRR tankers from their track at the refinery, and runs them to just shy of the spur to the drilling facility.
4. The engine uncouples and runs around the train via the mountain interchange.
5. The engine then shoves the OCRR tankers into the drilling site siding.
6. While the cars are being filled, the locomotive can run cars from the two industrial spurs to the "rest of the world" via the hidden switch in the lower right corner, or vice versa.
7. Once the loading is done, the loco takes the loaded OCRR cars the refinery, where the raw oil is unloaded and "refined." While this is occurring, more loose car shuffling can occur.
8. The "refined" oil is loaded into the foreign road cars and taken back to the interchange.
