Penn Central Car Movement #74 Part 4 - Local Industry Deliveries West Of Rock Ridge Yard And More!

Welcome back to the Atlantic Pacific Railroad and Penn Central Car Movement #74! We have a number of trains being dispatched for some local deliveries today.

Here's the dispatch sheet for today..

We'll kick it off with a couple of deliveries just outside of Rock Ridge yard. First up is Train RC-1 with AP SW7 #110 and 1/87th Matt B at the throttle, he'll head over to Cargill. There's some expansion work being done, so a call was put out to Gervais Pipe in Empire City for some 20' pipes. The AP sent 3 of their 50' gondolas which came back as part of the inbound train from Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L.. A Hostess covered hopper from Hostess Bakeries in Empire City needed more grain, so they sent that as well..

Here we see the AP Train RC-1 with the delivery to Cargill...

The delivery is made, and they have one more job to do while at Cargill. A delivery of loaded coal cars need to be brought over to R.M.O. Electric. 6 cars came from the N.Y.C.T.L. and a pair came from the K.P. & W. 

Now that the empties are pulled, AP #110 head back to Rock Ridge...

Meanwhile, AP Train RP-2 with AP MP15 #105 and 1/87th Engineer Steve and his trusy brakeman 1/87th Bob head over with the 8 loaded coal cars.

AP #900 with 1/87th Engineer JP at the throttle picks up the cars. Don't let this little GE 44 tonner engine fool you by its looks. She's got the pulling and pushing power to get these spotted at the power plant!

Here we see AP #900 doing what it does best, taking care of business!

Back over at Rock Ridge, EB #8163 needs to head over to the Richmond Hill Engine Terminal. However, there's two special folks here for the day as Sir 1/87th Neal has flown them in to show them around and to see the operations. 

The train is back out of departure track "C" and heads over to the office at the north end of the yard. 

Who is at the throttle? None other than the owner of EB 8163 than 1/87th Sir John of Georgia! He's brought with him another special guest, 1/87th PC Ralph who will take the ride in the EB caboose. They'll head over to the engine terminal where they'll be given a tour of the entire facility!

He gets the signal and now AP Train #RH-5 will head out to Richmond Hill Engine Terminal.

These guys open up the throttle and highball it out of Rock Ridge flying thru the Little Jamaica Interlocking. Next stop! Richmond Hill Engine Terminal!

We'll cut it here for today. Tomorrow we'll continue delivering freight from both Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L. and PC Ralph's K.P. & W. railroads! 

Thank for reading!