P.C.C.M. #70 Part 1 - Outbound Freight To The K.P. & W. And The N.Y.C.T.L.

Greetings followers of the Atlantic Pacific Railroad and the Penn Central Car Movements (P.C.C.M.)!

P.C.C.M. #70 is a three layout movement. The Outbound freight originates on my layout and will head out to both Sir John and his railroad in Empire City and to PC Ralph and his railroad in West Mill. Both railroads inspired by, but not forgotten Penn Central Railroad!!

The yard at Rock Ridge is very busy today and management has summoned 3 sets of crews to gather outbound cars in and around Rock Ridge. 

AP #201" is under the guidance of 1/87th Bob and brakeman 1/87th JP, both veterans of the rails.

 AP #302, a classic GP38-2 has 1/87th Stuart at the throttle with 1/87th Mark as brakeman. We all know about Stuart and his performance on the APRR. However, 1/87th Mark is a veteran and will make sure Stuart rides the straight and narrow!

 AP #200 "Spirit Of Jay" is under the guidance of 1/87th Kai and brakeman 1/87th Jim.

First pull is from the yard. ACFX Morton Salt had been loaded and will head out to Cavendish Foods, and will be handed off to the KP&W. 

AP #201 stops at CP South Tower for some instructions from 1/8th Rich. A quick 'chit chat' and they're on the way!

The crew, riding sans caboose will be picking up 2 Auto Box cars. The EBRR box cars will head to the Ford plant in Empire City. The UP Box car (not part of the PCCM) will head out to the Ford plant in Louisville, KY.

Next stop is C&P Restaurant Supply. HRC has been loaded with restaurant supplies for Battaglia Bros. Warehouse. The EL Box Car and NP reefer car will head to Terminal Warehouse with both packaged and frozen foods. 

The cars are dropped off on one of the classification yard tracks. They'll be parked for a very short time as this train is heading out today!! No wonder they needed 3 sets of crews! Talk about getting the job done!!

The crew on AP201 head out again, this time over to Shapeless Steel for a pair of PC gondolas with steel slabs for Mid Island Steel to be delivered by the N.Y.C.T.L. 

Where to next? Three Amigos Warehouse and Storage to a pair of box cars. The PC car will head to Terminal Warehouse and the AP Box car will head to All City Storage, both loaded with assorted merchandise in Empire City.

AP #201 is back in Rock Ridge. A short stop so they wait for further instructions from the yardmaster. As mentioned earlier, this job is out on the road today!!

AP #302 stops at CP South. He's being called to pick up 4 box cars over at the plant. Normally a road switcher job, they'll do the work for today. Both 1/87th Sir Neal and 1/87th Sir John want to make sure this assignment gets done quickly with no hiccups or delays!

There are 3 Penn Central box cars that will head to Ralph's Grocery Warehouse with juice products. the Tropicana box car will head to A&P Warehouse in Garden City, LI. The N.Y.C.T.L. will hand the Tropicana off to the LIRR which handles all deliveries out there.

As #302 passed CP South, he continues west. Not going to the yard? The orders are to pick up the cars and 'drop them' on the Rock Ridge Outbound track. 

The cars are dropped and AP #302 crosses over at CP East and backs into the yard. Looks like the train is being put together to head out!

AP #200 'Spirit Of Jay' will start to pull cars off the classification tracks add them to the train now being put together. 

Cars are now being 'shoved' and added to the 4 box cars already staged on the outbound track. 

A Pair of KP&W box cars, both empty, will head back to Williams Yard on the KP&W.  

Corning #90404, which came from Penn Glass and delivered to Rock Ridge will head to Corning Glass in West Mill. 

A pair of KP&W box cars from American Hardware will head to Quality Fabrications on the KP&W loaded with hardware supplies.

Triangle Pacific #5510 was unloaded at C&P Restaurant Supply in a previous move and sent to Rock Ridge for storage. The car will head to the BCOL in N. Vancouver via Selkirk for assignment. 

A caboose is needed to complete the train. 

AP caboose #54 is added to the end of the last freight car. 

The train is now ready and will go out at Extra 600. Extra 600? There's no mention to the tower about engine 600, so what happened?  It seems a last minute order change came down from operations in Rock Ridge. What was the change? Check out the video!

That's a wrap for my part of P.C.C.M. #70

Don't forget to check the inbound portions of P.C.C.M. #70 on both railroads!

Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L.

PC Ralph's Kings Port # Western

Thanks for reading!!