Intra-Layout Train Movements

Greetings All,

With P.C.C.M. #41 right around the corner it's time to get a few loose cars into Terminal Yard and ready for departure. Some of these cars have been on the layout for awhile and need to be accounted for and dispatched.

I'm calling my portion of P.C.C.M. #41 the Tom Seaver series in honor of one of my boyhood idols, Tom Seaver who wore #41 for the NY Mets. Tom was born George Thomas Seaver in Fresno CA, is a Hall of Fame pitcher who pitched for 20 years and is most noted for his time with the NY Mets. 

Tom led the Mets to their improbable 1969 World Series win by going 25-7 that year. Although he lost WS game#1 he pitched a complete game 10 inning 2-1 win over the Orioles Mike Cuellar to put the Mets up 3-1 in the series.  I'll add some Tom Seaver Fun Facts to each of the P.C.C.M. 41 series installments that I post.

Now let's get to the trains: 

Penn Central C628 #6309 has come from the engine facility with an old NYC cupola caboose from the caboose track. 

 6309 couples up to a string of empty ore cars on track 5.

NYC GP20 6707 is part of the trio of Terminal Yard power and below it tacks the caboose onto the empty ore train which will be known as Extra 6309. The GD ore car is a tribute to legendary modeler the late John Allen and his Gorre & Daphetid railroad. 

The empty ore train heads down grade from Terminal Yard past Hudson Coal

With the empties on the main 6309 couples up to the loaded cars at T&R Gravel. The PRR and NYC hoppers are loaded with ore for KP Steel on Ralph's K.P.D. layout.

The empties exchanged for loads Extra 6309 heads down grade thru Bedford NY towards Empire City's lower level.

Rounding the curve behind the ACE cafe and crossing over Water street Extra 6309 continues downgrade.

Extra 6309 has come out of the west side tunnel and is approaching Empire City Station.

 Extra 6309 runs past the Empire City USPS facility on the reverse curve.

Extra 6309 emerges from the tunnel on the east side. The train will come back thru EC station and run up the grade to get back to Terminal Yard. Or not... 

The 6309, an AHM C628 repowered with an Athearn BB motor was unable to get the cars up the grade and PC GP30 2332 was dispatched to rescue the stalled train. The light weight of the C628 once again has knocked it out of mineral & ore service.

Former Extra 6309, now Extra 2232 arrives at Terminal Yard and heads for the yard scales on track 9.

Extra 2232 heads thru the weigh in motion scales. The train will terminate further into the yard and the engines will head for the engine terminal. 6309 will most likely end up back in the box.

Back at Empire City the Empire Belt Railroad has left North Side Yard with a transfer run to Terminal Yard. Here's the E.B.R.R. train heading over the Cornelius Vanderbilt Memorial Bridge. The P&LE gondola has had it's girder load from KP Steel removed and is heading back to it's home rails. 

 E.B.R.R. GP9m 7279 leads the train thru Bedford NY

 The E.B.R.R. arrives at Terminal Yard.

These empty cars came into the Empire Belt's North Side Yard from the L.I.R.R. in P.C.C.M. 40  

The following day the Terminal Yard Switcher is building an outbound train while a commuter train takes on passengers on track 1. P&LE 40331 has been loaded at the Terminal Yard repair shop with scrap wheels for Sal's Salvage in West Mill NY. The hoppers with ore from T&R Gravel will be going to Kings Port Steel in Kings Port NY. Both are served by the K.P.D.

 The cars are shoved back thru track 9 to a departure track.

A few of other cars heading out in P.C.C.M. 41 are L.F.N.W. #160 that will be traveling back to it's home rails in California. We'll see more of the 160 as P.C.C.M. 41 progresses. PC #229046 is loaded with rolls of printed labels from Berk Enterprises in Bedford NY and headed for Van Winkle Canning in Bloomberg NY and P&E #3638 loaded with packaging material from Berk Enterprises and headed to Cavendish Fine Foods in Mayfield NY. 

So the stage is set to start the P.C.C.M.41 "Tom Seaver'' series.
 I'll start posting that probably tomorrow so stay tuned. 

Thanks for reading!