New York New Jersey Ops #2 Part 6 - Getting Freight Delivered From Rock Ridge Yard!

Welcome back to our New York New Jersey Ops #2! Today the crew will work on getting the rest of the freight delivered and sending out a manifest train as well...

AP SW1500 #101 and AP SW1000 #102 are being called into action. Freight for Three Amigos Warehouse and C&P Restaurant Supply need to be delivered. AP GP38-2 #303 will handle the job as train RN-5.

Yardmaster NJ John talks to Kai and Jim C. about the outbound train.

AP GP38-2 will going out as train RN-5 with Engineer Mark and Jim W. as his conductor...

Mark has 6 cars to deliver; 5 for C&P Restaurant and 1 for Three Amigos Warehouse...

Tower Operator Rich T. clears him to depart...

Mark waits for the signal...

...And departs Rock Ridge Yard. First stop will be Three Amigos Warehouse...

Train RN-5 on the move...

Mark arrives at West Harold and enters the secondary track adjacent to the tower...

There's a Penn Central SW1500 on loan to the APRR to be used at a few locations. Today it will be used at Three Amigos. Engineer Norman has the duty on this engine today...

Tower Operator Bob runs him around the train...

And pulls the lone car with Jim W. tagging along...

Norman pulls the lone car and will wait for Mark to leave. Once they depart, he'll spot the car at Three Amigos...

Mark is ready to depart West Harold. His next stop will be C&P Restaurant Supply...

Mark left, and Norman will spot the car at Three Amigos...

Norman spots the car which came from City Pallet on the NYCTL with a carload of empty pallets. 

Norman is done for today. He always gets the easy jobs!

A short time later, Mark and his train arrive at C&P Restaurant Supply. Four AP RBL box cars from Key Food from the NYCTL are loaded with packaged meats. The BAR car, making its inaugural appearance on the APRR came from Consolidated Groceries with dry food goods...

Mark pulls 5 non-NYNJ ops cars from C&P in order to drop off the inbound freight cars...

Mark spots the cars at C&P Restaurant Supply...

The cars are dropped on inbound track 2....

The job is finished and Mark is ready to head to Rock Ridge Yard. However, he's being held at the interlocking...

There's a Trailer Train that's heading east and gets priority on the APRR tracks...

The trailer train has passed and the tracks are clear for Mark to head to the yard...

At the Rock Ridge Yard limits, Mark awaits the signal from Rich...

...And slowly makes his way into the yard...

A quick stop at CP South and talks to Rich T. for a minute...

The yard crew will take the cars from Mark's train and add them to some cars that will head out tomorrow...

Kai gives Mark back his caboose and then parks his engine on West Ladder track 3...

One last car needs to be moved today. The Hostess covered hopper from Empire City Hostess will head to Cargill empty. It will go back to Hostess in a future ops move...

Engineer JP heads over to the yard to pick up the lone car...

With the car in tow, he heads back over to Cargill...

JP heads on to track 2 and drops the car...

JP has completed his run and ties down on Cargill tank car track 1...

Kai and Jim C. have tied down on track 1 and call it a day....

Tomorrow the yard crew will send out freight which will head to Penn Central's Morrisville, PA yard for destinations in Pennsylvania and beyond.

Thank you for reading my blog post today. While reading this blog, don't forget to see the inbound portion on Sir John's New York Central Train Layout

See you tomorrow!!

New York New Jersey Ops #2 Part 5 - Freight Continues To Move Around Rock Ridge Yard

Welcome back to the continuation of our New York New Jersey Ops #2 inbound series. Today the crew at Rock Ridge Yard will send out some local freight as well as prepare for an inbound train from Weehawken Yard...

NJ John will have both switchers on duty today. AP SW1500 #101 with Engineer Kai and SW 1000 #102 with Jim C. will handle the duties in the yard...

The 3 B&M cars from Kellogg in Lancaster PA will head over to ShopRite...

Kai handed them off to Jim C. as these cars need to be shoved on the siding...

Kai pulls the 3 non-Ops reefers that will head out for use in a future series...

Jim drops the B&M cars at ShopRite...

Kai drops the cars on West Ladder track 11...

The 2 cars from Lightning Press in Empire City get delivered to PC Richard & Son with new circulars. Wonder what's going to be on sale? 

The EB box cars from Quaker Oats will be delivered to ShopRite. They have a loading dock to handle the 5 cars when needed. Today is one of those days...

ShopRite had expanded a few years ago and took over a warehouse that was being held by 1:87 Sir Neal. Since he had no use for it, he sold it to ShopRite...

Back over in the yard, the crew is building the train that will head over to Ideal Auto Parts. There's 7 cars that will be dropped, 5 at the building and the rest on an adjacent track when Ideal asks for it. Cost them less to move it than store it in the yard. Yard tracks are valuable space at Rock Ridge yard!!

AP MP15's #106/107 will run over to Ideal. Engineer Norman will handle the duties since Sir Neal doesn't need any photos today. Well, maybe one. He's taking Engineer Mark with him. Why? Only Norman knows and NJ John doesn't care as it gets Norman away from him!!

The 86' Box Cars from the Ford Plant in Kentucky will be put on adjacent track west of Ideal...

They're almost ready to go...

Of course they need a caboose! Mark is on the end for now...

Norman checks in with CP Tower Operator Rich T. and gets the final orders as AP Train RE-5

A brief stop at the end of the yard limits...

...And they head out to Ideal Auto Parts with cars in tow!! 😄

Look what showed up! The Penn Central brought over the six PS-2 covered hoppers that had brake line issues. PC GP7  #7139 waits for the signal...

Finally the cars arrive at Rock Ridge Yard. They sit overnight as there will be an outbound train heading out to Morrisville and points in western PA...

The crew pulled the cars, hooked up the caboose to the engine and sent them on their way...

PC 7139 heads out to Weehawken Yard...

Not so quick! A stop signal at Little Jamaica...

Quick enough! They finally get out of town...

A short time later, Norman and Mark arrive over at Ideal. They'll pull a few loaded auto parts cars from Ideal and drop off their empties...

The outbound cars are pulled...

The caboose is cut from the end of the train...

And Mark has dropped the cars at Ideal as Norman wanted to get this on video for his collection! Shaking my head at Norman...😟

The cars from Kentucky are dropped on an adjacent siding and will be switched out when called for...

The moves are completed and the guys head back to the yard...

Approach to the yard via CP Rock is granted...

Norman drops the caboose, then the rest of the cars on east ladder tracks...

Norman and Mark are finished as Kai and Jim C. have completed their moves for today...

Tomorrow we will continue with some moves to C&P Restaurant Supply and Three Amigos Warehouse as well as the some other moves. 

Make sure to check out the inbound moves on Sir John's New York Central Train Layout as there's lots of action going on at both Terminal Yard and North Side Yard!!

Thanks for reading!!