P.C.C.M. #40J

Greetings All, 

It's installment #10 of the P.C.C.M. 40 series that originated on 1:1 scale Sir Neal's A.P.R.R. and headed up the River Line to 1:1 scale PC Ralph's K.P.D. before reaching Selkirk NY. The ball and the trains are now firmly in the N.Y.C.T.L.'s court as VN-4, a 24 car freight train that left Selkirk behind five cab units, arrived yesterday at the advertised time of 1900 hours in Terminal Yard. Let's pick up the action on track 9 as the TY switch crew has received it's switch list from the yard office. 

The TY switch crew couples up to VN-4's caboose and prepares to pull it and the block of cars from Rock Ridge from the train. The fresh out of the shop GP20 and an S12 are the yard power today.

A cut of six empty hoppers from R.M.O. Electric on the A.P.R.R. is shoved into track 7 for the Coal Job to take to Hudson Coal tomorrow. The Morton Salt covered hopper from Morton Salt is headed for Ronzoni in Long Island City NY 

More cars from Rock Ridge Yard include two A.P.R.R. 50' RBL's loaded at Freihoefer's Bakery with baked goods for Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood NY and ACFX 56670 decorated in the American Bicentennial paint scheme. The covered hopper was loaded with flour at the huge Cargill plant on the A.P.R.R. and is consigned to the Wonder Bread/Hostess Plant in Bedford NY.

The last of the block from Rock Ridge is this 50' Tropicana RBL loaded with Tropicana products at the Tropicana Plant in Jersey City NJ that is serviced by the A.P.R.R. The car is consigned to Ralph's Grocery Warehouse in Empire City.

With the block from Rock Ridge now off the train the TY switcher can access the caboose servicing track where they spot VN-4's caboose.

The TY crew is now busy pulling the block from West Mill. The GP20 - S12 combo has some NYC fans scratching their heads. For those of us in the know we remember this S12 was converted to a track cleaner. Exactly!  I'm cleaning the rails while enjoying the ops. How cool is that?

The West Mill block is pulled thru track 9 to the yard lead where the crew will sort and block the cars for the outbound locals and interchanges. A shout out to 1:1 PC Ralph for his work on PC 104478. This is one of my best looking PC cars and was a gift from Ralph back in the early days of the P.C.C.M.s when we had only a few cars to move around. Note that Ralph removed the roof walk, a safety initiative begun by the ICC in 1966, to clearly put this car into the PC era. 

PC 104478, P&LE #35892, KP&W 2140 and M.C.R.R. #350623 will be heading to North Side Yard for interchange with the LIRR.

The two Trailers on Flat Cars left Williams Yard and later West Mill empty on train WV-2. At Selkirk they were loaded with trailers for Terminal Yard.

The T.O.F.C. cars are being shoved towards the T.O.F.C. track and overhead crane.

The T.O.F.C. cars are spotted and the crew heads back to resume their switching.

The yard work continues with B&M 109 and 110 loaded with glass bottles from Corning Glass and headed to Heileman's Brewery are shoved into track 5 for the Bedford Local. NYC 80779 and the PC depressed center hopper will be heading to industries in Empire City.

The TY crew is done! Cars from VN-4 consigned to local industries or interchange have been blocked and are ready for departure. We'll take that up in the upcoming installments.

Thanks for reading!