New York - New Jersey Ops #3 Part 5 / Inbound Traffic Starts to be Delivered

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Welcome Back to New York-New Jersey Ops #3!!!

NY-NJ Ops #3 continues today with the NYCTL beginning to deliver freight traffic from the first inbound trains from Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad's Rock Ridge Yard. 

We open up today's action in the engine terminal with Alco Joe called for Train EC-1 picking up his motive power.

The engines are coupled onto the EC-1 freight consist and the train is getting ready for departure.

Train EC-1 heads to North Side Yard

Alco Joe and conductor Murray check in with the EBRR trainmen.

The PC crew heads back to Terminal Yard as Train EC-1 running as lite engines.

Conductor John and Sir Neal plan their moves. The four engine consist will come in handy today!

The Belt Job shoves out of North Side Yard.

The first move today is to pull empty covered hoppers from the Quaker Oats Plant.

Loaded APRR, EBRR and PC covered hoppers from Cargill in Rock Ridge, NJ and a Morton Salt covered hopper from Morton Salt also in Rock Ridge are shoved into the Quaker Plant.

The next move is to deliver GB&W Thrall All Door Boxcar #54 making its NY-NJ debut to Neal's Lumber & Hardware loaded with lumber from the Potlatch Corp.

Next stop is Empire Produce to deliver one UPFE and two WFE 57' reefers loaded with apples from Kerr Orchards in Washington.

Fast forward to the Hohman Ave Industrial Park we catch empty PC boxcars #160502 and #140772 being spotted at Superior Furniture for their next NY-NJ loads.

Some non NY-NJ traffic gets delivered to other Hohman Ave Industrial Park industries.

Empty PC boxcars #360063 and #360508 are shoved into the Walsh Steel Wool Products siding for their net NY-NJ loads.

The Belt Job has finished its switching work and prepares to head back to North Side Yard.

The Belt Job arrives in North Side Yard.

The guys head to the office to submit their paperwork to the yard clerks.

Over in the Terminal Yard engine terminal a PC engineer checks in with engine hostler Wet Willie and picks up a pair of GP7s assigned to todays Train MR-1 also known as the Gravel Job.

The Gravel Job prepares to depart Terminal Yard with empty APRR ballast hoppers and empty PC PS2 covered hoppers to be delivered to T&R Gravel hence the Gravel Job moniker.

Train MR-1 makes its moves .

The empty APRR Ballast Hoppers are spotted at T&R Gravel for their next NY-NJ loads.

Empty PC PS2 covered hoppers are also spotted at T&R Gravel for their next NY-NJ loads of locomotive sand.

The Gravel Job crew checks in with the EB Tower operator and is cleared to shove back to Terminal Yard as Train MR-2.

Train MR-2 returns to Terminal Yard.

We'll cut it here for today with the GP7s returned unharmed to the engine terminal.

We'll pick it up tomorrow with Penn Central Train Extra 2647 from Rock Ridge Yard heading to Terminal Yard.

This concludes part five on the NYCTL. Be sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad. 

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you tomorrow!!!

New York - New Jersey Ops #3 Part 4 / Inbound Trains Start to Arrive

 Greetings All,

Welcome Back to New York-New Jersey Ops #3!!!

NY-NJ Ops #3 continues today with the NYCTL beginning to receive the first inbound trains from Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad's Rock Ridge Yard. Let's get to it!!

Empire City railfans have found another good spot to catch the train action as they set up to watch Penn Central Train TY-4 from Selkirk coming into Empire City with NJ-NJ freight traffic.

Train TY-4 rolls thru the city towards Terminal Yard.

The engineer has brought the TY-4 power to the engine terminal for servicing and is greeted by engine hostler Wet Willie.

The usual suspects have gathered to get the TY-4 freight cars inspected and blocked into their next trains.

After pulling the TY-4 consist into the yard tracks Big Mike has set up Train BP-41 that has hot NY-NJ traffic for the Bedford Park Ford Plant. The terminal switcher swaps cabooses.

The BP-41 gets a transfer caboose to protect the shove more to the FORD Plant.

The terminal switcher brings the cabooses back to the caboose track.

Over at Bedford Tower Robert R is ready to switch the FORD Plant.

The Bedford Park Yard Job switches the FORD Plant and then heads to Terminal Yard as Train BP-12.

Big Mike is quickly out to grab the BP-12 freight cars.

Robert R. has coupled his RS2s to the BP-41 consist and chats with Kar Knocker as they pump up the air.

Train BP-41 departs Terminal Yard for Bedford Park.

After cutting off the caboose it's time to deliver the shutdown cars to the FORD Plant. LV boxcar #8247 is loaded with batteries from Delco in Flint, MI.

NYC & PRR 86' boxcars of auto parts from IDEAL Auto Parts in Rock Ridge NJ are placed on the FORD siding.

Empty PRR auto racks assigned to the FORD pool out of Rock Ridge East are shoved into the plant for their next loads of new cars.

Robert R. shoves the last auto rack into the plant.

After taking care of another assembly line crisis Robert R. ties down  the RS2s and caboose in Bedford Park Yard.

Meanwhile over in Empire City Penn Central Train Extra 6533 East from Rock Ridge Yard is making its way to Terminal Yard.

Extra 6533 heads to Terminal Yard.

The ailing 6533 is shoved into the shop for service.

The terminal switcher pulls the caboose.

An Empire Belt pool caboose is set out in the yard.

Big Mike begins his work with a block of empty NY-NJ freight cars held in the yard for movement to their next NY-NJ loads.

After a couple of hours Big Mike has the yard in good shape.

We'll cut it here for today with the U23Cs placed at the sanding rack and Big Mike going to beans.

We'll pick it up tomorrow at the engine terminal with Alco Joe reporting for Train EC-1, the freight transfer to the EBRR's North Side Yard.

This concludes part four on the NYCTL. Be sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad. 

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you tomorrow!!!

New York - New Jersey Ops #3 Part 3 / Dispatch of Outbound Train

 Greetings All,

Welcome Back to New York-New Jersey Ops #3!!!

NY-NJ Ops #3 continues today with the NYCTL working on interchanging freight traffic with Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad  and dispatching an outbound train towards the APRR Rock Ridge Yard. 

Part 3 opens up in Terminal Yard with Kar Knocker having finished his inspections of Trains NH-3 and WSJ-2 and Big Mike ready to sort and block the freight cars.

The three empty Hi-Cubes brought in by Train WSJ-2 are coupled up to a string of empty PC boxcars. The empties will be moving to their next NY-NJ loads during the coming inbound train movements.

Big Mike places the freight traffic to be interchanged with the B&O 16th Street Yard Transfer on track #8.

The Terminal Yard crew calls it a day and goes off duty.

Over 16th Street the B&O Transfer crew has come on duty. A pair of H16-44s are the current power.

Getting pulled from 16th Street Yard are three APRR and three EBRR 57' reefers fully fueled and loaded with frozen foods from Birdseye going to C&P Restaurant Supply in Rock Ridge, NJ. 

The 16th Street Transfer departs the yard.

The loaded APRR & EBRR 57' reefers are delivered to Terminal Yard.

The B&O Crew will be pulling cars from the TW&CS Complex that included very hot LV/NIRX boxcar #41000 loaded with time sensitive printed materials from The Lightning Press.

The TW&CS freight cars are pulled.

Freight traffic for the TW&CS Complex get delivered.

Empty BAR reefer #7674 is spotted at Birdseye for its next NY-NJ load.

Four TP&W RBLs are placed for Consolidated Grocery Distributors and their next NY-NJ loads.

The B&O crew heads back to their 16th Street Yard.

Big Mike is back on duty running the yard job once again and blocking Train HN-2 which will haul 21 freight cars of NY-NJ freight traffic to Maybrook Yard for movement towards the Atlantin Pacific Railroad's Rock Ridge  Yard.

Four EBRR gondolas of scrap going to Bethlehem Steel will be on the head end of the HN-2. The empty Hi-Cubes and PC boxcar will be moved towards their next NY-NJ loads during the inbound portion of this virtual op. 

The engineer for Train HN-2 is picking up his locomotives at the engine terminal.

The H16-44s couple up and pump the air. Kar Knocker and Big Mike take a minute to check out the quartet of FM locomotives nearing the

end of their service lives.

Train HN-2 departs Terminal Yard.

Next Stop Maybrook!!!

This wraps up the Outbound portion of NY-NJ Ops #3 on the NYCTL. There is much more to come in the Inbound portion that will be begin on Friday July 24th. Make sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's  Atlantic Pacific Railroad.

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you Friday!!!