Welcome to the first Intermodal Op session on the Atlantic Pacific Railroad! We're going to do this in two parts for the outbound train that will be heading from Port Newark to Syracuse and beyond. The first part will be building the train from the Reynolds Intermodal Terminal.
An overview of the Reynolds Intermodal Yard. Four tracks keep this terminal very busy.
The A.P.R.R. leases engines from CSX when needed. here we see CSX MP15DC engines 1153 and 1177 working the yard. These engines will pull 3 tracks of containers out of the yard and build CSX Extra Train X115 which will head to Port Newark and then on to Syracuse.
CSX Extra Train X115 building the intermodal train. Once put together, the train will be moved to the secondary set of tracks East of West Harold Tower. West Harold controls all movements on these tracks from the signals on the west side Little Jamaica Interlocking over to the Intermodal / Auto Rack Secondary tracks.
Here's the second set of cars being pulled out of the terminal
Extra X115 being pulled east on secondary track 2
The engines are cut from the train and moved to the adjacent tracks leaving room for the engine that will take this train to Port Newark.
Stay Tuned!
Nice stuff Neal with an impressive amount of intermodal equipment and those great looking switchers, CSX MP15DC engines 1153 and 1177!
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Acknowledge building of Extra Train X115 (Reynolds Yard to Port Newark) and it's impending departure.
Terminal Yard out...
Nice work Sir Neal!!! I second the motion on the CSX Switchers, they look great! Nice overview of Reynolds Yard, cool videos and great looking rolling stock. Happy to see this side of the APRR in virtual ops action!
Really sharp looking locomotives and Intermodal equipment! Reynolds yard is a quite impressive operation. Greatly enjoyed the segment!
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