New York - New Jersey Ops #5 / Part 7 / Finale

  Greetings All,

Welcome Back to New York - New Jersey Ops #5!!!

Our fifth NY-NJ Virtual Op with my NYCTL interchanging freight traffic with Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad continues today.

The action starts in the engine terminal with a PC engineer picking up the motive power for Train MR-1 / MR-2 that will service both Hudson Coal and T&R Gravel. 

The Alco RS32s are coupled onto their train.

Train MR-1 departs Terminal Yard for Hudson Coal and  T&R Gravel.

The MR-1 starts working T&R Gravel.

Loaded hoppers get pulled from T&R Gravel.

The T&R Gravel hoppers are placed at Hudson Coal.

Empty APRR Ballast Hoppers are placed at T&R Gravel for their next NY-NJ loads of....Ballast!

Four empty PC PS covered hoppers are also placed at T&R Gravel for their next NY-NJ loads of locomotive sand.

The RS32s couple onto the empty coal hoppers.

Loaded hoppers begin to get pulled from Hudson Coal.

The last of the loaded hoppers are pulled.

The MR-1 makes the long pull of loads and empties from Hudson Coal.

The MR-1 holds on the Bedford Secondary to await clearance to use the mainline for shoving the empty hoppers back to Hudson Coal.

What's this?!! Alco Joe is reporting for PC Train EC-1 and gets a nice surprise. Engine hostler Wet Willie has set up a trio of GP7s to handle the train with the CBQ 244 leading. A little known fact is that the 1:1 Alco Joe is a CBQ man. Nice wotk Willie!!

Train EC-1 prepares to depart for the Empire Belt's North Side Yard.

Train EC-1 heads to North Side Yard with NY-NJ freight traffic for interchange with the EBRR and LIRR.

With the EC-1 cleared off the mainline Train MR-1 makes its shove move to Hudson Coal.

Empty hoppers get delivered for their next NY-NJ coal loading.

The last of the empties are placed at Hudson Coal.

The RS32s couple onto the loaded hoppers going to Terminal Yard as Train MR-2.

The MR-2 heads back to Terminal Yard.

The MR-2 arrives in Terminal Yard.

Meanwhile Train EC-1 is arriving in EBRR's North Side Yard to the delight of the local railfans.

A very happy Alco Joe checks in with the EBRR trainmen and poses for railfan photos while answering questions about the CBQ 244.

Some time later PC Train EC-2 heads back to Terminal Yard caboose lite.

With the CBQ 244 and Train EB-2 now heading to Terminal Yard the EBRR guys get ready to work the Empire City industries. As usual Senior Engineer Sir Neal will be at the throttle of the U23Cs.

Conductor John couples on his caboose.

The Belt Job is on the move.

The Belt Job makes its first delivery at Empire Produce placing  State of Maine Products boxcar #5226 loaded with blueberries from Circle B Farms in Caribou, ME next to two other State of Maine Products boxcars.

Not much happening on this side of town today as the Belt Job heads to the Hohman Ave Industrial Park with a short train.

Now working the industrial park a loaded NYC boxcar gets pulled  from Reliable Machine Co. 

Empty EBRR boxcar #358160 is spotted at Reliable Machine for its next NY-NJ load fulfilling one half of a two empty cars request.

Empty EBRR boxcars #416035 and #416079 are shoved to the Walsh Steel Wool Products siding for their next NY-NJ loads fulfilling a two empty car request.

Empty EBRR boxcar #360279 consigned to Reliable Machine is placed on the local storage track pending movement and loading.

The Belt Job is done at Hohman Ave Industrial Park and prepares to head back towards North Side Yard.

The Belt Job heads towards North Side Yard.

The guys tie down their train on the Belt Line due to yard congestion and the pending arrival of Long Island RR Train MA-3.

And here comes LIRR Train MA-3 from Fresh Pond Junction.

LIRR Train MA-3 heads to North Side Yard.

The LIRR caboose is tacked onto a freight car going to Fresh Pond Junction.

LIRR engineer Long Island Mike checks in with Sir Neal and conductor John.

LIRR Train MA-4 departs North Side Yard.

Next stop Fresh Pond Junction.

Put it in the books!!!

This concludes NY-NJ Virtual Op #5 on the NYCTL. This op ran a bit long with over 145 NY-NJ cars being moved across our layouts which is quite a lot and doesn't include the non NY-NJ cars also in play to give the op a cohesive story line. Be sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR.

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you soon!!!

New York - New Jersey Ops #5 / Part 6

  Greetings All,

Welcome Back to New York - New Jersey Ops #5!!!

Our fifth NY-NJ Virtual Op with my NYCTL interchanging freight traffic with Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad continues today.

The action starts in the engine terminal with Alco Joe reporting for "The Bedford Turn" and picking up a pair of Alco RS11s that will power today's train.

The RS11s are coupled onto the Bedford Turn, Train BT-27, freight consist.

The Bedford Turn, Train BT-27, departs from Terminal Yard.

The BT-27 rolls into Bedford on the mainline and blocks the station causing ire among the commuters once again.

The switching of the Bedford Industries begins at Neubaum's Coffee & Tea Importers. Note the commuters pointing out the locomotives being protected by the freight cars.

The BT-27 starts working the long siding that includes Hostess, Berk Enterprises, University Millwork and the Key Food Distribution Center.

More non NY-NJ freight cars are being pulled from the siding.

Non NY-NJ freight cars including the red, white and blue State of Maine Products boxcar get pulled from Key Food.

Conductor Murray is at Key Food to check with the shipping and receiving department to clarify how they want to handle the three loaded reefers and three loaded boxcars to be delivered to their siding that has only four spots for cars 50' or longer. 

With that issue cleared up conductor Murray and Alco Joe proceed with their switching duties. Two of the three B&M RBLs loaded with pasta products from Ronzoni will be going back to Terminal Yard until called for by Key Food.

The caboose is coupled onto the B&M RBLs for the move back to Terminal Yard.

Being shoved into the Key Food siding are three mechanical refrigerators loaded with NY-NJ frozen foods.

B&M RBL #110, loaded with macaroni from Ronzoni, makes the last of the four NY-NJ freight cars being delivered to Kef Food today.

Three Penn Central RBLs loaded with plywood veneers from Mike's Lumber in Rock Ridge, NJ are delivered to University Millwork. 

With the switch work done and the mainline now open Alco Joe checks in with the Bedford towerman.

A short time later a trio of PC covered wagons make an appearance at the tower.

A PC F7A-F7B-F7A lash up leads an empty hopper train out of the APRR Rock Ridge Yard to Terminal Yard.

The empty hopper train rolls into Terminal Yard.

The covered wagons are placed at the sand rack for servicing.

Back in Bedford Alco Joe is making his runaround move.

The RS11s are coupled onto the freight cars going back to Terminal Yard as Train BT-28. Alco Joe is out on the front porch of the 7604 which means he's being held for a train using the mainline.

The BT-28 holds for a surprise westbound train and then proceeds to Terminal Yard.

Alco Joe is back in the engine terminal making inquiries into the large number of foreign road power in this virtual op that includes the B&O GP38-2 #3837 making its NY-NJ debut.

The terminal switcher collects the cabooses.

The cabooses are shoved to the caboose track.

Kar Knocker has released both trains and Big Mike is ready to get to work.

B&M RBLs #105 and #109 loaded with Ronzoni products are constructively placed in yard track #7 pending delivery to Key Food. The demurrage clock is running...

Big Mike sets the empty hoppers on track #2 to await their next moves to their NY-NJ loads. 

Over in the engine terminal a PC engineer reports for Extra Train 9909 that will handle Water Street, the Bronx and Elmsford, NY NY-NJ freight traffic.

RS1s 9921 and 9909 couple up to their train. The Hi-Cube boxcars are loaded with appliances from the large RC Richard Distribution Center in Rock Ridge NJ that need to be delivered to the Empire City PC Richard warehouse.

Extra 9909 departs Terminal Yard.

After delivering the NY-NJ freight cars to Stella Doro in the Bronx and the A&P Warehouse in Elmsford, NY the 9909 returns to Empire City. 

Extra 9909 works the Empire City PC Richard warehouse.

The Hi-Cubes of appliances are delivered.

Extra 9909 prepares to depart for Terminal Yard.

Train Extra 9909 is cleared to leave the station.

We'll cut it here  for today with the RS1s leading their train into Terminal Yard.

We'll pick it tomorrow at the engine terminal with a PC engineer picking up the motive power for Train MR-1.

This concludes Part 6 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!!!