Welcome to another Penn Central Car Movement! This is PCCM #112 and is another three layout move featuring John's New York Central Train Layout and Ralph's Kings Port Division Railroad along with my Atlantic Pacific Railroad.
We have a number of jobs that will be worked today. 1:87 Scale NJ John, the yardmaster for the APRR has the crew gathered and starts handing out the jobs.
Today the following jobs will go out:
AP Train RR-10 Yard Job at PC Richard & American Hardware
AP Train RI-4 Industrial Job working Tropicana and Cargill
AP Train RW-3 working Three Amigos Warehouse
AP Train RN-7 working C&P Restaurant Supply & Shapeless Steel
AP Train RE-2 working Marcal, Freihofer and Ideal Auto Parts
PC Richard & Son has 3 box cars that will be delivered to Montgomery Ward (yes a name from the past!) on the NYCTL via Selkirk and Terminal Yard. AP Box car #500 making its debut fresh from the Patti-O Paint Shop arrived last week and was put into revenue service right away!!
AP MP15 engines #106/107 has 1:87 Scale Kai making the moves in the yard today...
Kai drops the box cars on A/D track 3 as the yard crew will build the outbound train on that track and A/D track B for the NYCTL and A/D track A for the KPD...
Over on the Rock Ridge Industrial Area, 1:87 Scale JP will pick up the cars from Cargill and Tropicana. Once he gathers them, JP will bring them over to the yard...
He first pulled the Hostess covered hopper from Cargill them went over to Tropicana to pick up the 4 box cars. The Hostess covered hopper will go to Hostess in Bedford, NY and the 3 PC box cars will go to Consolidated Grocery Distributors on the NYCTL...
JP drops them over at the yard for Kai to handle...
A set of non-PCCM AP RBL box cars will head over to Three Amigos to be loaded for customers down in Philadelphia and beyond. These will be taken over to TAW on AP GP38-2 #307 with 1:87 Scale Steve W. at the throttle...
Tower Operator 1:87 Rich gives him the orders and sends him on his way...
Steve W waits for his signal..
...And heads out for Three Amigos...
AP Train RW-3 heads out....
A short time later, Steve W arrives at West Harold, checking in with tower operator Bob so he can work the industry...
The 3 Hi-Cube box cars and 2 KP&W box cars are being moved to American Hardware empty for a future PCCM move...
The crew are dropping off some non-PCCM box cars for future loading...
Now complete, they can head out back to Rock Ridge Yard...
Meanwhile, AP GP38-2 #303 with 1:87 Scale Jim C heads out as AP RN-7 to Shapeless Steel and C&P Restaurant Supply to pick up gondolas to Gervais Pipe in Empire City on the NYCTL.
A short time later, they arrive at Shapeless Steel...
Next stop is C&P Restaurant Supply. The BAR car in the background will head to Pilgrim State Hospital. A string of AP and EB 57' reefers will head over to Nassau Community College with frozen foods. All 7 cars will be delivered by the LIRR via Terminal Yard on the NYCTL...
Jim holds at Little Jamaica tower awaiting routing back to Rock Ridge yard...
Back at the yard, AP GP38-2 #300 with 1:87 Engineer Mark will head out to Ideal Auto, Marcal and Freihofer Bakeries to pull some cars...
A string of non-PCCM cars for both industries will be dropped off...
Mark checks in with Rich at the tower..
...And heads out to work his train...
Meanwhile, Jim proceeds back to Rock Ridge Yard...
...Which gives Mark access to the main...
Now we see Jim is back in the yard limits. Rich has him routed to come in on the north side of the yard...
As he arrives at CP Rock, the crew will get these cars sorted in the yard...
Now we have Steve arriving in the yard. Kai and NJ John are going to have their hands full, but these two skilled guys know what they're doing!!
Steve has his train in the yard on A/D track B. Kai will work the hind end then Steve can pick up his caboose and head out for servicing...
Back over on the main, Mark starts to work on Ideal Auto Parts. He's picking a pair of KP&W box cars going to Zenith on the KPD. No, there's nothing resembling auto parts in these cars, as they're empty! The KPD will assign them for future revenue using...
Next stop at CP LJ, Mark will pull the cars at Marcal and Freihofer. The PC Box car at Marcal will head to Consolidated Grocery in Empire City on the NYCTL...
Next are a trio of APRR box cars that will go to Pilgrim State Hospital with baked goods. the NP reefer will have frozen cakes for Pilgrim State to enjoy...
There's the PC box car! Mark didn't forget it! It's on the same siding as Freihofer. However, you need to move cars at Freihofer in order to get cars at Marcal...
Mark's train is almost ready. A few cars have to be dropped at Freihofer. One that move is finished, he'll grab his caboose and put his train back together and head to the yard...
Mark is holding on the main as there's some traffic leaving Rock Ridge East yard...
Mark has his signals and heads out to Rock Ridge yard...
A short time later he checks in with Rich for routing...
...And gets routed to A/D track B...
A short time later, Jim is back with his train!!
Kai definitely has his hands full. Look at what he has there!!
No worries, the crew will clear this up quicker than you can have a crew head to Freihofer for some Chocolate Chip Cookies (the soft ones, please)!!
The crew is back in the yard. We'll cut it here as Jim timed out, as did Mark. Tomorrow we'll see the yard crew start building the outbound trains.
Thanks for reading!!
