Saturday, August 2, 2025

P.C.C.M #112 Part 5 On The A.P.R.R. - Freight Sorted And Deliveries Started!

Welcome back to the continuation of Penn Central Car Movement #112 on the A.P.R.R.

Rock Ridge Yard had the night crew make some moves so the inbound freight can be sent out by today's crew.

Scheduled runs today as follows:
Train RI-2 - Coal Move to R.M.O. Electric
Train RE-4 - Rock Ridge East Yard Moves
Extra Train RHET-10 - Engine Terminal Hopper Cars
Train RR-1 - Rock Ridge Yard Industries


Rock Ridge AP SW1000 #110 has 1:87 JP at the throttle. He'll head over to the yard and pick up the loaded coal hoppers. Despite the excessive heat in the area, R.M.O. Electric starts the winter build up for coal. The price is right as well this time of the year...!


Once again 1:87 Engineer Kai pulls the cars that JP will pick up...


Tag team time!!


JP proceeds to pass the office of Rock Ridge Yard, under the watchful eye of 1:87 Yardmaster NJ John...


JP starts dropping the cars...




All of the inbound coal hoppers have been dropped on the 3 tracks servicing R.M.O. Electric. Nice work JP!!


Now, look who's at West Harold Tower! It's visiting Senior Engineer 1:87 Sir John at the throttle with his leased EB 8163 and caboose to make the move to the engine terminal! Good to see you 1:87 Sir John!!


Sir John drops the caboose...


Picks up his outbound train...


Adds the EB caboose...


Extra 8163 with visiting Senior Engineer 1:87 Sir John bring the loads to Richmond Hill Engine Terminal...

We turn our attention back to the yard, Kai is working to block the cars and send some freight out to get delivered...

We have a trio of B&M RBL box cars from Habitant Soup via the KPD to be delivered to ShopRite...


Looks like some cars need to be moved around a couple of box cars need to go to American Hardware from Walsh Steel on the NYCTL. Kai will get that squared away as both industries are on the same track, yet on opposite ends of the track...


Looks like Kai wants to drop these cars first...


Empire Belt box Cars dropped at American Hardware...



The EB Box car from International Paper on the KPD will go over to Marcal, probably tomorrow as Kai needs to get the yard freight delivered...


Kai has these B&M cars moving all over. Get them dropped off Kai!!


Kai enlists 1:87 Engineer Dan to help with this move. It requires a move to shove these south to ShopRite. So Dan will run these to the south end of the yard, pull them back to the track serving ShopRite and American Hardware, then shove them to the loading dock. There's enough track space so the engine won't back into the cars at American Hardware. Precision railroading at its best!!




Next move it do drop the Morton Salt car from Quaker on the NYCTL to Morton Salt's Rock Ridge facility to get loaded with more salt...



Dan pulls back to West Ladder track 1 to tie down for the day. Kai is still moving cars in the yard somewhere. We'll let NJ John find him. Too much for this reporter to start going where no reporter should be going!! 😊


We'll cut it here for today. Tomorrow the AP crew will deliver the rest of the freight surrounding Rock Ridge Yard.

Don't forget to check out the inbound portion on both Sir John's New York Central Train Layout and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division Railroad

Thanks for reading!!

2 comments:

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

    Acknowledge AP110 assigned to AP Train RI-2.
    Acknowledge AP Train RI-2 delivering PCCM coal hoppers to RMO Electric.
    Acknowledge AP106/107 assigned to AP Train RE-4 working Rock Ridge Yard.
    Acknowledge EB 8163 assigned to AP Train RHET-10 with special guest engineer.
    Acknowledge AP100 working Rock Ridge Yard.
    Acknowledge PCCM traffic delivered to Rock Ridge Industries.

    Terminal Yard out...

    Rock Ridge Yard continues to be the railyard that shines and is a fine example of how freight should move!! Thanks for the shout out to the special guest engineer in the EBRR 8163. I really am enjoying seeing the AP trains going the final mile to service their industries. Great stuff Sir Neal!!!

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

    Acknowledge dispatch of AP Train RI-2.
    Acknowledge dispatch of AP Train RE-4 working Rock Ridge Yard.
    Acknowledge EB 8163 assigned to AP Train RHET-10 for Richmond Hill Engine Terminal
    Acknowledge dispatch of RR-1 with AP100 working Rock Ridge Yard.

    West Mill out...

    While it is hard to think about coal fired heating during the hot summer, watching coal hopper car moves is always cool! Nice touch bringing in the leased EBRR loco piloted by the well respected engineer! I especially enjoyed following the distinctive three blue B&M RBLs rolling around the yard to their set out at ShopRite. Fortunately our rail fan reporter seemed to have great access to Rock Ridge Yard so we could enjoy all of this activity!

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