FICTIONAL RAILROAD • RAILROADER OPERATIONS COMPANION • FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA

RAILROAD / EQUIPMENT

FV&N Equipment Roster

The persistent roster for Flagstaff, Verde & Northern motive power and rolling stock. Railroader controls where the equipment physically moves; this record tracks assignment, service status, and history between sessions.

4Total pieces
4Locomotives
0Rolling stock
4Service ready

MOTIVE POWER

Motive power roster

4 locomotives currently carried on the roster.

FV&N NUMBERING PLAN

The number tells you what it was built to do

The fleet follows the numbering system we established for the railroad so future additions fit naturally.

  1. 1–9Yard & small powerSwitchers and compact locomotives.
  2. 10–19Light road steamBranch and local freight locomotives.
  3. 20–39Heavy freightMain-line freight power.
  4. 40–99Larger steamReserved for future heavier steam locomotives.
  5. 100–199Diesel powerFirst-generation road switchers and road diesels, beginning with FVN 101.

FREIGHT-CAR PHILOSOPHY

Small captive fleet, big interchange flow

Most revenue cars are foreign-road or private-owner equipment received through interchange.

2 CAPTIVE

Maintenance boxcar

FV&N company-service boxcars assigned to the Flagstaff shop and maintenance department.

Shop parts • Tools • Mechanical supplies

2 CAPTIVE

Coal hopper

Company-service hoppers for locomotive and terminal coal supply.

Locomotive coal • Shop fuel

4 CAPTIVE

Log car

Small captive pool cycling between the logging reload and the lumber operation.

Logs

INTERCHANGE

Boxcar

Most boxcars are foreign-road interchange equipment. Two separate FV&N maintenance boxcars are carried as company-service cars.

Finished lumber • Brewery supplies and beer • Feed products • General merchandise • Mining supplies

INTERCHANGE

Flatcar

Primarily foreign-road cars moving on and off the FV&N through interchange.

Logs • Finished lumber • Machinery • Building materials

INTERCHANGE

Gondola

Interchange equipment used as traffic requires.

Logs • Scrap • Ore • Aggregate • Machinery

INTERCHANGE

Open hopper

Quarry and mining traffic normally uses foreign-road interchange hoppers.

Cinder • Aggregate • Ore

INTERCHANGE

Covered hopper

Supplied through interchange based on customer demand.

Grain • Feed ingredients • Cement • Malt

INTERCHANGE

Tank car

Foreign-road or private-owner cars received and returned through interchange.

Gasoline • Diesel • Heating oil • Chemicals

INTERCHANGE

Stock car

Interchange cars used when livestock traffic is offered.

Livestock

INTERCHANGE

Reefer

Interchange refrigerator cars handled as seasonal traffic.

Packed produce

2 CAPTIVE

Caboose

FV&N-owned cabooses for road and branch assignments.

Road freight • Branch turns

ROLLING STOCK

Actual freight-car roster

Cars will be added from the Railroader save as the railroad acquires them.

ROSTER OPEN
No freight cars imported yet

The locomotive fleet is established. We’ll add the actual freight-car roster once the Railroader save is underway instead of inventing cars that do not exist in-game.