Greetings All,
Welcome back to P.C.C.M. 50K!!!
Today's the day we make our final car movements!
We're going to wrap it up today by focusing on the L.I.R.R. transfer run heading towards North Side Yard in Empire City to make the final P.C.C.M. 50 interchange of freight cars with the Empire Belt RR.
The transfer run heads thru Bedford returning cars that were seen here in earlier installments of P.C.C.M. 50. The first block originated in Elkhart and came east in Train NY-4
The formerly empty Southern gondola is now loaded with steel coils from Mid Island Steel. Block 2 has cars that originated at West Mill and are heading back for loading or to be sent out empty to avoid the 1/87th scale per diem charges.
Passing Bedford Tower we catch the Bedford Park Yard switcher coupling up to PC 40' hi cube boxcar #272242 under the supervision of the thoroughly exhausted tower operator 1/87th scale John B.
The L.I.R.R. train enters North Side Yard via Hohman Ave
The RS-3 comes back to the Hohman Ave side of the yard to pick up it's outbound train and caboose.
The L.I.R.R. reclaims it's caboose and prepares to depart with a Hoschton Railway Company RBL and several other freight cars.
The L.I.R.R. transfer heads over the Empire City viaduct coupled up to this EL 57' reefer that is the last car in play for my portion of P.C.C.M. 50.
EL 5034 loaded with perishables from C&P Restaurant Supply in Rock Ridge NJ rolls across the Vanderbilt Bridge as we see PC #9999 spotting the PC hi cube boxcar car at American Hardware Supply for a future P.C.C.M. loading.
It's outta here!!! The EL 57' reefer heads east on the L.I.R.R. transfer run to be delivered to it's consignee Bohack Grocery in Bushwick Brooklyn. With that my part of P.C.C.M. 50 is a wrap!!!!
Here's Terminal Yard after the carnage of P.C.C.M.50. The yard job has this train ready to go for the next P.C.C.M.
Here's North Side Yard with the E.B.R.R. engines coupled up to our common cars and ready to make the moves for a future P.C.C.M.
In a sign of compassion 1/87th scale conductor John drops off a chaise lounge at Bedford Tower for 1/87th scale John B. who is refusing to walk down that long flight of stairs. Says John B. "The next time I walk down these stairs I'm going home!''
The North Side Yard guys thank everyone for reading!!
The Terminal Yard guys also thank everyone for reading!
See ya next time!!!!
WOW!!! Quite the series. I think all of the crews should get some extra duckets and a bottle of Cavendish for all of the hard work they did. Really great PCCM 50! This will have to go into the PCCM Hall of Fame for sure!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brian!! I agree the 50 series was epic and worthy of recognition. If the virtual ops live for a thousand years model railroaders will look back and say this was their finest hour!
DeleteThanks for your participation!
A terrific end to the series! Very efficient work setting out all cars to consignees and avoiding per diem charges! Clever shot of #9999 setting out the Hi Cube in the background while the EL boxcars rolls toward its detestation. The chaise lounge gift for 1/87th scale John B. and the waves from the crews at North Side and Terminal Yards were fun and much appreciated! A well done wrap up to a well done series!!! Take a well deserved break over there on the N.Y.C.T.L.!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ralph!!! Glad you caught that two for one shot with the 9999!! Thanks for the acknowledgements for the 1/87th scale guys who worked very hard this series. Everyone's getting some well deserved time off! Thanks for participating in this epic series!
DeleteThis was a great series for all of us! I don't think we'll be able to replicate a P.C.C.M. like this one...or will we?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the chaise lounge for John B. is really neat. Where did you find that?
I think the crews from all the railroads should get some Pizza, Cavendish Spirits, Freihofers cakes and whatever else can be donated to the boys on the rails!
P.C.C.M. 50 is gonna be hard to beat!! But I think we can do it down the road. So much came together in this one series that just putting it together was a lot of work. The work paid off though as it seems everybody had a good time participating and following along in this landmark endeavor by our crew.
DeleteI believe John B's chaise lounge came in either an IHC or Model Power building kit. I've had it for years.
1/87th scale Sir John will have to pass on the cakes and pizza as he's become a little rotund. But I'll definitely have some of that Cavendish Single Malt!