Sunday, February 11, 2024

P.C.C.M. #103 Part 3 - Blocking The Outbound Freight Cars...

Welcome back to the continuation of Penn Central Car Movement #103 on the APRR!

Today the AP yard crew will start the outbound build for the KPD and NYCTL...

AP MP15 #105 and MP15's #106/107 will work the yard in tandem. Dan will be in #15 and Kai and Norman will handle #106 & 107...




Over at Rock Ridge East Yard, M&E C425 engines #18 & 19 will bring over to the 4 empty ballast cars to Rock Ridge Yard. Engineer Steve will run them over...



Steve makes a stop at CP South Industrial for routing into the yard...


Steve drops the empty hopper cars at the yard...


Steve has dropped the cars off and now heads back to Rock Ridge East Yard....



The work continues over at the yard...


PC Hi-Roof Box Cars make their debut on the APRR. These two cars will head over to Bendix Corp with bulk hardware on the NYCTL...



More blocking on the A/D tracks...


The gondolas from Shapeless Steel are spotted on the tracks...


AP SW1500 with JP in the cab has brought over 3 covered hoppers from Cargill. JP pulled the Morton Salt hopper car from the Morton Salt and dropped on track 6...


The cars are now being brought over to the A/D tracks to add to the outbound NYCTL train...



A string of reefers getting blocked on the A/D tracks...



JP drops off the Morton Car for the KPD train...



And now back at the Industrial area getting fuel for the engine...


The yard crew adds the Morton car to the KPD train...


The crew has wrapped up the moves for the day and will head over to grab some food at Meet At Ralph's Diner...


We'll cut it here for today. Tomorrow 2 trains will depart Rock Ridage Yard; one for the KPD and the other for the NYCTL.

Don't forget to check out the outbound portion of PCCM #103 on Sir John's N.Y.C.T.L. and PC Ralph's K.P.D. railroads!!

Thanks for reading!




1 comment:

  1. To: Rock Ridge / West Mill
    From: Terminal Yard

    Acknowledge AP105 working Rock Ridge Yard
    Acknowledge AP106/AP107 working Rock Ridge Yard
    Acknowledge M&E Train 1819 delivering PCCM empty ballast hoppers to Rock Ridge Yard
    Acknowledge outbound trains with PCCM traffic for NYCTL and KPD being assembled on the A&D Tracks.

    Terminal Yard out...

    Terminal Yard is standing by to receive the PCCM freight traffic from Rock Ridge Yard. Nice seeing the newest PCCM Penn Central freight cars making their debut at American Hardware. As always the APRR crew has matters well in hand!!! Well done!!!

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