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I have already mentioned that the ATSF Enid district and the BN Avard parallel each other from Fairmont, through Enid and then split, with the Santa Fe going to Kiowa and the BN going to Avard. In 1989, several trains, mostly TOFC/COFC, ran through the Avard district with trains originating at places like Memphis and Birmingham on the BN and terminating on the Santa Fe on the West Coast. More trains returned east on the same routing. These trains ran through Enid on the BN to Avard, then over the Santa Fe to Waynoka, about ten miles south of Avard, where the BN crews would leave and Santa Fe crews would take over. In addition, BN grain trains would arrive and depart from Enid like the ATSF trains. In fact, within the yard limits of Enid, there are three different locations known as BN Jct on the prototype and model. A staging yard representing Cherokee Yard at Tulsa on the BN was created. This yard is actually under the helix and feeds directly into the middle deck. At Fairmont, the BN and ATSF cross each other, and then run parallel west toward Enid. They pass the Farmland plant, and join tracks at BN Jct. After running a short distance over this track, they split at Steen, which is the location of the refinery. Even though the Champlin name was no longer in existence, I used that name for the refinery, as it was in my high school days. The ATSF and BN mainline parallel each other past grain elevators and the ADM mill. I have the BN local and grain trains come into the ATSF Tenth Street yard. The lead for the yard comes off the main line at a place called Blanton, which on the prototype was the junction between the ATSF Kiowa line and the BN Avard line. This track continues to the lower deck, so the through trains continue down to the lower deck and do not enter the 10th street yard at Enid. |
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