Greetings everyone and welcome to a very special blog post.
If you've been following my blog as well as Sir John's New York Central Train Layout, Sir 1:1 John and I were looking for additional train movements that we could add to our current NY-NJ Ops sessions.
I had the opportunity to get hold of 8 UPS 24' container chassis and 10 UPS 40' trailers. We came up with the idea of making a dedicated TOFC train from Terminal Yard to Rock Ridge and back. Some heavy brainstorming and the name 'New York New Jersey Express' was born! Decals were promptly ordered and when they arrived, packaged them up along with the trailers and shipped them to the Patti-O Paint Shop.
Sir John had everything he needed to bring these vehicles up to the EBRR and APRR standards as well as certifying them for both over the road and intermodal service.
A preview of the finished trailers and containers in Terminal Yard, as these, along with a couple more containers chassis will head out from Terminal Yard to the Reynolds Intermodal Terminal located outside of Rock Ridge. This train is a 'HOT' train meaning it will depart and arrive in 24 hours or less, depending on rail traffic...
Check out the departure of the New York New Jersey Express Train NYNJ-1
A day later, Penn Central NYNJ-1 arrives at West Harold Interlocking. Tower Operator Bob gives the PC crew instructions on how they will be routed into the Intermodal Terminal...
Penn Central NYNJ-1 heading to Reynolds Intermodal Terminal...
A short time later, PC Train NYNJ-1 arrives on the Intermodal lead by West Harold. The Reynolds Intermodal Terminal is a 4 track stub-ended yard that handles containers as well as trailers....
The Penn Central crew arrives at the West Harold Interlocking Secondary track and checks in with Tower Operator Bob for instructions. The yard crew will send out the switcher to pull the caboose so the crew can shove back into the yard...
PC SW1500 #9543 pulls the caboose...
...and backs on to yard track 3...
Track 2 gets the four 24' container chassis...
And track 1 gets the 6 40' trailers. 1:1 Sir John graciously gave me one of his Empire Belt trailers to round out the TOFC train making it 6 of those 40' trailers. Thank you 1:1 Sir John!!
Penn Central 2568 caboose lite leaves Rock Ridge. Next stop - Weehawken Yard!
It's a wrap! New York-New Jersey Express has made its inaugural debut and will be featured in more of our virtual ops!
Tomorrow these cars will have been emptied (or loaded) and sent back to Terminal Yard.
Here's the link to the entire blog post for these trailers...
Thanks for reading!!
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