PC.C.C.M. 39O - The Rock Ridge Local

Greetings followers of the P.C.C.M. Car movements! As we wind down P.C.C.M.39, the last of the freight from Ralph's Grocery Warehouse needs to be delivered to Tropicana and C&P Restaurant Supply. Tropicana #13068 is in need of juice in quart and half gallon jars, and this car will be filled for a 2 weeks supply. The car will be kept cold due to the heavy insulation built into it. A.P.R.R. cars #60394 and #60382 have packaged meals from Ralph's Grocery and will head over to C&P Restaurant Supply, which will in turn deliver these to it's customers via refrigerated trucks. 

Let's head over to Rock Ridge Yard. The A.P. activated another engine, GP38 #7675 and sent it to Rock Ridge to handle the local freight moves. 

The local switcher has started to assemble the train and once a caboose is attached, it will be sent out as RT-3, the Rock Ridge Local.

The train finally assembled, PC #7675 will couple up and get ready to head out for today's job.

Rock Ridge Yardmaster has cleared the train to leave the yard, and will head out. First stop, Tropicana! The crew hopes that once the car is dropped, the foreman on duty will bring them a 'Thank You' bottle of fresh Tropicana. 

As we approach the lead to Tropicana, this massive structure has many cars on the property. 

The facility can handle a couple dozen cars at a time, with 2 inbound tracks, two outbound tracks, and 2 building tracks. There's one more track that's reserved for their switcher. However, for today's move, PC 7675 will do the chores as Tropicana switcher  #24 is being serviced. 

Now that our car is spotted, the train will pick up the box car and caboose that needed to be cut off in order to drop Tropicana #13068.

RT-3 can head out from Tropicana. Next stop is C&P Restaurant Supply.

The Yardmaster at Rock Ridge has cleared RT-3 to proceed out and await the next signal at Little Jamaica. 

At the east end of Little Jamaica, the tower operator needs to align them out to mainline track #1 in order to get to C&P Restaurant Supply.

The signal is set, and we're on our way!

Crossing over two sets of tracks requires restricted speeds thru the interlocking in order to get on the mainline.

Now that RT-3 is on the main, a little bit of a tricky move must happen in order to get to the Little Jamaica secondary track. It must 'back up' in order to head into the area by C&P. Once on the secondary, he'll cut the cars by the industry, and then do a quick run around. In order to complete this move in a short period of time, the tower operator at West Harold will work the Little Jamaica tower operator to get back on the main, do a quick run around, and then had back onto the Little Jamaica secondary. What does all this mean? We're tying up the main! 

Now we start the run around...

There's two reefer cars that need to go back to Rock Ridge and then off to another food supplier. We'll pull the reefers, run around the in-bounds, and then shove both A.P. RBL box cars into the building.

There's one more move that needs to be done before heading back to the Yard. A B&M box car needs to be dropped off at Mike's Lumber for a special order.

The shove into the lumber track is made, and now RT-3 can head back to the yard. 

PC 7675, running long nose forward and using his caboose as his 'eyes' slowly works his way back into Rock Ridge Yard west ladders. He'll drop his caboose and then will be assigned to another track and tie down for the night.

That wraps up P.C.C.M. #39. Put this one in the books! 

On behalf of the N.Y.C.T.L. and the KP&W, we hope you enjoyed this move! Thanks for reading!