Welcome back to the final inbound part of Penn Central Car Movement #93 on the A.P.R.R. Yesterday we saw the freight arrive from Weehawken with both loads and empties from Sir John's Amazing N.Y.C.T.L. Railroad and PC Ralph's Incredibly detailed Kings Port Division Railroad.
Here we go...!
Today's jobs are as follows:
AP Train RT-1
Three Amigos Warehouse
Motive Power - AP RS-1 #200
AP Train RI-3
Ideal Auto Parts / C&P Restaurant Supply
Motive Power - AP MP15DC #106/107
AP Train RC-2
Cargill / Tropicana
Motive Power - AP SW1500 #100
AP Yard Move
ShopRite Food Warehouse
Motive Power - AP MP15DC #105
In the cab of AP #105 is 1:87 Scale Matt, back from visiting family in Tennessee. The first train out will be train RT-1...
Matt pulls the cars for this train...
AP RS-1 #200 "Spirit Of Jay" arrives from the Richmond Hill Engine Terminal with 1:87 Scale Steve in the cab and conductor Bob not far behind...
Matt pulls the caboose to add to the end of the train..
Caboose #60, a recent addition from the Dedham, MA paint shops who work on certain freight cars and engines for the APRR is in place...
AP Train RT-1 ready to go...
AP Train RT-1 on the move...!
Next train Matt is building will be for Ideal Auto Parts and C&P Restaurant Supply. Three Auto Parts Box cars and a reefer that will be dropped off right after they spot the cars at Ideal....
A pair of AP MP15DC engines are ready to go along with a special treat! AP Caboose #79, in it's bright orange paint scheme was carefully created at the Patti-O Paint Shops in Empire City (okay, really in Georgia...shhhh!). Engineer 1:87 Scale Mark with conductor Jim will handle this run...
They add the BAR car for C&P to the train and will be ready to go...
Train RI-3 departs the yard... (Note-there's a typo in there spotted after the fact. Deal with it!)
AP Train RI-3 on the move to Ideal and C&P Restaurant Supply...
Next train move in Rock Ridge will be the Hostess covered hopper for Cargill and 2 gondola cars for Tropicana. 1:87 Scale JP will handle the move. Since its within the Rock Ridge Yard limits, JP doesn't need a caboose. According to JP "We don't need no stinkin' caboose!"
JP works quickly so he can get out of the yard. He doesn't want to get called back to do more work. He's a senior engineer on the APRR. Besides, no one wants to argue with JP!
JP is ready to go and the tower operator has given him the signal..
JP heads over to Cargill and Tropicana as AP Train RC-2
JP goes right to work. First spot is Cargill...
Next spot is over at Tropicana. In the background is the Morton Salt facility. It's within Rock Ridge Yard as 1:87 Sir Neal made them an offer they couldn't refuse to locate their east coast operations to Rock Ridge...
JP is finished. He's back on the power plant track talking with one of the workers. Probably discussing what they will have for lunch!
Back over in the yard, there are 3 Hi-Cube box cars that need to be spotted over at ShopRite. Two of these cars are AP owned and the third is EB owned. The Empire Belt is the local railroad operating in Empire City on the N.Y.C.T.L. All three were painted at the Patti-O Paint Shop.
Let's watch Matt spot the cars...
Matt is working on moving some freight cars around. Not sure what he's up to...
Matt has these cars on the west ladder. There must be another train going out, but we don't see it listed on today's work assignments. We'll have to wait and see what's going on...
Back over near Ideal, Mark is working on spotting the cars at Ideal.
Now on to C&P Restaurant Supply...
Mark shoves the car into the building...
And they head back to the yard. However, it looks like they're being held at the yard limit...
Now we know why Matt was building a train on the west ladder. EL GP35 #2570 from Philipsburg, NJ has arrived to pick up a string of cars...
Matt adds that sharp looking Bay Window Caboose to the train..
A quick stop to give the crew the train orders...
EL Extra Train 2570 is ready to depart Rock Ridge Yard..
Erie Lackawanna Extra 2570 is on the move!
Extra 2570 Thru West Harold. These guys mean business!! Guess they don't want to be here. Oh well...
Now we see that AP Train RT-1 is by West Harold Tower and getting ready to drop off the 7 box cars. First they must pull some non-PCCM box cars out in order to drop the 5 cars from PC Richard and the 2 from Zenith TV...
They pull 3 cars...
First drop is the 2 KP&W box cars from Zenith TV on the KPD.
Now to spot the 5 TP&W box cars from PC Richard & Son...
Here we go...
The cars are spotted and the crew can head back to the yard...
Mark and Jim are finished for the day...
...And this concludes the inbound portion of Penn Central Car Movement #93 on my railroad.
Until next time. Thanks for reading!
To: Rock Ridge / West Mill
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Acknowledge Train RT-1 delivering PCCM freight cars to Three Amigos Warehouse.
Acknowledge Train RI-3 delivering PCCM cars to IDEAL Auto parts & C&P Reastaurant Supply. 😉
Acknowledge Train RC-2 delivering PCCM freight cars to Cargill and Tropicana.
Acknowledge Train AP-5 working yard and delivering freight cars to ShopRite.
Acknowledge EL Train Extra 2570 departing Rock Ridge Yard for Phillipsburg NJ.
Acknowledge all PCCM cars forwarded to the APRR from the NYCTL delivered to their respective consignees.
Terminal Yard out...
Put it in the books!!! A very well done closing post. The new AP 60 caboose looks good! Personally I'm partial to the AP 79 caboose 😊. Thanks for the shoutout on the AP79 and the Hi Cubes. Between them and the TP&W cars we've added a lot of color to the operation! The EL GP35 2570 was a nice surprise. A sharp looking engine and caboose. When the EL guys get out of town they get out of town! The AP switch engines continue to look good getting the job done. The APRR crew did a fine job handling all of the freight traffic and earning revenue for the railroads involved. Well done Sir Neal!!!!
Thank you Sir John! AP Caboose #79 is ALWAYS in Rock Ridge Yard. The TP&W cars will add more operational action to our railroads. I remembered I had the EL engine somewhere, then found the caboose and since the EL did run around the PC era, I felt it would make for a nice non PCCM train to add to our action!
DeleteAdding an Erie Lackawanna connection to the APRR is very plausible and opens the door for adding PCCM traffic to off layout industries via an interchange with the EL at Rock Ridge. More cars can be handled and as they are going to off layout destinations they are off layout when your actual ops take place.
DeleteI think this is definitely worth exploring. Check this out when you have a moment.
https://trainmanjim.tripod.com/id8.html
To: Rock Ridge Yard/ Terminal Yard
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Acknowledge dispatch of local APRR trains RT-1, RI-3, RC-2, AP-5
Acknowledge EL Train Extra 2570 departing Rock Ridge Yard for Phillipsburg NJ.
West Mill out.
Considering that the Kings Port Division only sent two cars to the APRR this series Rock Ridge crews had a lot of work to do! All moves were handled very nicely by APRR power. This post was a nice showcase for new equipment, two APRR cabooses, three Empire Belt Hi Cubes, and the five TP&W cars! The appearance of the EL train picking up cars at Rock Ridge is a neat op that expands the beyond the basement concept! Very nice work wrapping up PCCM 93 on the APRR!
Thank you Ralph! Yes, the Patti-O Paint Shop is the 'Rembrandt' of painters within our realm of model trains! The EL train was an afterthought as both you and John always seem to have not only non-PCCM cars but non-PCCM trains running thru the towns and yards. If you can't beat em', join em'!
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