Freight traffic has been brisk as Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L. and PC Ralph's K.P.& W. railroads sent cars to the A.P.R.R....
The AP had the crew lay over in Selkirk to meet up with freight coming from Terminal Yard on the N.Y.C.T.L. As they headed to Rock Ridge, they were picking up freight from the K.P.&W. that was waiting in Weehawken. When they arrived, they were held up as one of the freight cars, EB 360379, had been pulled out of service and placed on the RIP track. Both PC and AP crew decided to transfer the freight to another car. AP #60416, an RBL box car, was in Weehawken, empty. The AP will leave a couple of empty freight cars in Weehawken, just in case the AP or PC have an issue...
AP Train Extra 302 with 1/87th scale Engineer Steve and his trusty brakeman 1/87th Bob, is seen heading to Rock Ridge via the AP Main Line Track 1...
Meanwhile, there's a local that needs to deliver some freight to and spot some cars for a future PCCM as well as some non-PCCM action...
AP #105 with 1/87th scale Matt working the yard job, starts the build..
PC 142770 dropped off some supplies at Morton Salt and will head over to Marcal empty for a future P.C.C.M.
AP RS-1 #200, the "Spirit Of Jay", with 1/87th scale pulls some non-P.C.C.M. box cars for Mike's Lumber that will eventually head down to Morrisville, PA to be forwarded to the lumber yards outside of Philadelphia..
A quick view of Extra 302 heading to Rock Ridge and AP RS-1 #200 as train RE-1, the daily local, heading out for the day.....
Here we see train RE-1 over by Little Jamaica, getting ready to work the secondary. While over at Mike's Lumber, they'll pull the empties from Freihofer and Marcal, and take them over to the West Harold secondary for spotting at Three Amigos Warehouse...
NP #473 and the EL reefer are pulled from C&P Restaurant Supply to be spotted at Freihofer for a future P.C.C.M. move. Someone will be very happy getting a car load of Freihofer cookies. Hope they have a good supply of milk with those cookies!
Freihofer gets their cars..
The cars pulled from Freihofer and Marcal will head over to Three Amigos to pick up some freight destined for some consignees down south....
Meanwhile, here's AP Extra 302 arriving in Rock Ridge....
Now that Extra 302 is in the yard, they'll start to break down the train....
AP RE-1 is over on the West Harold secondary and will outlaw for the day. Too much traffic held up this crew, so they'll wait for a ride back to the office in Rock Ridge to find out why they were held up so long on the road! Sheesh!!
Back in the yard, the breakdown of cars begins. The 4 ballast cars are spotted on East ladder track #4 and will be pulled my the AP MoW crew as needed...
AP #105 and AP #300 are getting ready to work the yard..
Directions from 1/87th scale NJ John are barked out as the noise from both diesel engines can be a little loud...
The covered hoppers for Cargill are spotted on A/D track 3 and will head out on a local...
Here we see the Auto Parts cars spotted on the adjacent A/D track..
AP #105 pulls a few more cars to spot...
Those east ladder tracks are filling up quickly...!
Here we see AP #60416 being spotted in the yard..
The inbound has been classified in the yard. All in a days work!
We'll cut it here for today. Tomorrow we'll see the locals in action getting freight delivered.
Check out the P.C.C.M. #75 inbound action on Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L. and PC Ralph's KP & W!!
Thanks for reading!
To: Rock Ridge / West Mill
ReplyDeleteFrom: Terminal Yard
Acknowledge work of APRR trains RE-1, Extra 302 and Yard Job.
Terminal Yard out...
Nice job Sir Neal!!!! APRR Trains using good looking motive power for all trains are a pleasure to watch. Photos and videos were very good. I appreciated the intra layout moves and have recorded same on Dispatch Sheet. Nice seeing APRR RBL 60416 get the spotlight. It's been almost four years since that car was painted! Time flies, especially when your outlawing on a local.