P.C.C.M. 46L: Deliveries to Cargill & Tropicana

Greetings followers of the Penn Central Car Movements.

With the rest of freight train VW-1 still in Rock Ridge Yard, AP #100 is going to resume freight deliveries and head over to Cargill. The train will be designated as RC-2, the Cargill Turn.

 There's 4 covered hoppers that need to be dropped off at Cargill. The Hostess Bread covered hopper was shipped from the Hostess factory in Empire City, as well as the 3 Penn Central covered hoppers from Empire City Cargill going to the main Cargill Plant outside Rock Ridge. Also, the A&P Warehouse in beautiful Garden City, LI sent a 50' RBL insulated box car to get a car load of fresh Tropicana Juice!

 As AP #100 pulls out of Rock Ridge Yard, it crosses over at CP South to the other track so the train can shove the cars into both facilities.

AP #100 makes the quick entrance into Tropicana and drops off the car on track 3, the inbound track.

Backing out on to the Rock Ridge secondary, AP #100 will head around the bend over to Cargill and drop off the remaining 4 cars.

AP #100, its job finished, will head back over to Rock Ridge Yard. In the background are a string of coal cars that came from Hudson Coal. A quick peek shows that some of the hopper cars are empty. They'll need to go back to Hudson Coal in the not so distant future. Good news for Hudson Coal!!

As AP#100 heads back into the East Ladder of the yard, he stops and looks over to his right. A quick shout out to the crew working the yard left off a couple cars for Freihofers and Mike's Lumber Yard.

 1/87th Senior Engineer Ed, already near the end of his work day, gets back into the cab to get these two cars delivered. A call to the tower and he's now designated as train RX-3, the Rock Ridge Turn Extra!

A quick gesture to the tower operator, and he's off to Freihoefer, but not before he's told that a Mikes Lumber is ready to receive his shipment. Earlier, they dropped the car on the Little Jamaica secondary, waiting for the call from Mike to bring the car in.

Train RX-3 heads over to Freihoefer with a car load of flour from Blue Ribbon Flour, located in upstate NY.

 With the car spotted at the plant, its on to deliver Empire Belt car #358160 to the lumber yard. This car came from Neal's Lumber in Empire City. Some great wood products are made over in that Empire City factory Neal's Lumber manufactures.

With the car safely off the secondary and delivered into Mike's Lumber Yard siding, train RX-3 will head back to Rock Ridge yard and call it a day.

We turn our attention to APRR GP38 #305 & 306. This consist arrived from Weehawken designated at train WR-3. On his train, they had 4 Penn Central PS-2 covered hoppers, filled with locomotive sand from T&R Gravel. With the Richmond Hill Engine Terminal in its final stages of completion, a call was made from the management of the A.P.R.R. to the management of the N.Y.C.T.L. They arranged to get T&R Gravel to handle all sand deliveries to the A.P.R.R. and their engine facility.

A call to the tower, and this train, will be designated as Extra 306. At the controls is 1/87th Engineer PC Ralph, and he will head over to the engine facility to deliver these hopper cars and have both engines serviced while on the property.

As Extra 306 is ready to depart, he awaits the 'green' signal and will be on his way!

This wraps up the A.P.R.R.'s role in Penn Central Car Movement #46. We point you west to Elkhart where Brian and his great Ralston Creek Railroad where freight from the East will be delivered.
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