Greetings All,
Welcome to our first Intermodal Virtual Op! The participating model railroads have dispatched various intermodal trains from their respective layouts. Next Saturday we'll try to match up some of the trains, trailers and containers in play to have them arrive on our layouts.
Lets get started:
To: West Mill / Rock Ridge / Galesburg / Zenith Yards
From: Terminal Yard
Dispatch of 1964 N.Y.C. Train SV-1 (NY Terminal Yard to Chicago Englewood Yard)
A lightning striped NYC F7 A-B-A set couples up to Super Van Train SV-1 at Terminal Yard and departs for Chicago.
By 1969 the New York Central Super Van Trains are now Penn Central Trail Van Trains and the Penn Central is operating 34 solid Trail Van T.O.F.C. / C.O.F.C. trains plus 10 C.O.F.C. mail trains system wide every day between 48 Terminals in 16 states.
This 1974 shot from the Terminal Yard loading tracks shows the overhead crane getting into position to lift the E.B.R.R. 40' trailer onto the 50' flatcar.
T.O.F.C. 50' flats can often be found in service between Terminal Yard and Williams Yard in Kings Port NY
To: Williams / Reynolds / Rennick / Zenith Yards
From: Terminal Yard
Dispatch of 1974 PC Train TV 7A (NY Terminal Yard to Chicago Englewood Yard)
A GP38-F7B-FP7 lash up leads TV7-A out of Terminal Yard.
Most days the end block of TV-7A is pulled off at Selkirk for the Kings Port Division.
TV-7A rolling thru Bedford NY will connect at Selkirk with TV-7 out of Cedar Hill Yard and then head west. Next stop Selkirk!
Fast forward to the Conrail era at Terminal Yard and the overhead crane is busy loading the newly manufactured Impack Spine Cars.
An ATSF 10 Pack Fuel Foiler comes thru the yard.
A 5 car set of ITEL Impack cars rounds out the 15 car train. A trio of SD45s are the power.
To: Williams / Reynolds / Rennick / Zenith Yards
From: Terminal Yard
Dispatch of Conrail Train TV-7A (Terminal Yard to Chicago)
TV-7A leaves Terminal Yard behind an ex EL bicentennial SD45, a CR SD45 and ex PC SD45.
The ATSF 10 Pack Fuel Foilers are possibly heading all the way back to California.
TV-7A has no trouble climbing the slight grade to the High Line with 10,800 HP available from the SD45s
TV-7A rolls thru Empire City. Next Stop Selkirk!
It's around 1991? at Terminal Yard judging by the Conrail Quality logo on the CR SW1500 as the Yard Job pulls an intermodal train from the T.O.F.C. / C.O.F.C. loading tracks.
A five unit set of recently built Conrail all purpose spine cars leads 5 unit sets of BN and SP Impack cars for todays TV-7A.
To: Williams / Reynolds / Rennick / Zenith Yards
From: Terminal Yard
Dispatch of 1991 Conrail Train TV-7A (Terminal Yard to Chicago)
One year old GE C40-8W #6062 and two year old C40-8 #6044 are today's TV-7A power.
TV-7A heads out of Terminal Yard while the yard job waits on track 1.
The five unit BN and SP Impack cars are heading west.
TV-7A passing Hudson Coal. Next Stop Selkirk!
It's about 2010 and a loaded double stack train is pulled from the loading track towards the Terminal Yard departure tracks.
A five unit set of APC 125 ton 48' well cars for CSX Train Q163A are being pulled from departure track 2 to head back to the loading / unloading tracks to reposition the 20' tank container which is placed in the wrong direction. (Actually I just noticed this and changed the narrative😊)
A second loaded five car set of Gunderson Maxi III cars for Q163A is shoved into track 2. This train looks to have containers for Zenith Yard in Los Angeles CA and Reynolds Yard in NJ
The yard job shoves a pair of single double stack cars into track 2 that will round out Q163A. Looks like Terminal Yard is one of the Conrail Shared Assets operations that came into being after the CSX and NS split Conrail in 1999.
To: Williams / Reynolds / Rennick / Zenith Yards
From: Terminal Yard
Dispatch of CSX Train Q163A (Terminal Yard to Chicago via Syracuse NY)
1/87th super senior engineer Sir Neal Himself and Conductor John prepare to depart for Syracuse with Q163A. In all the years of the N.Y.C.T.L. this is the first time 1/87th scale Sir Neal and Conductor John will ride together in a locomotive!
Q163A departs Terminal Yard behind CSX C40-8W #7664and UP AC-4400 #6839. Around this time CSX and UP partnered in a coast to coast container train operation called UMAX.
Q163A rolls thru Bedford NY and meets New York and Atlantic GP38-2s 261 & 271 with a local freight. The 271 features a 9/11 memorial paint job.
Q163A passes Bedford Tower and senior tower operator John B. in his 46th year of service! You know John B. likes the look of that container configuration!
Double stacks roll thru Empire City as Q163A heads north. The Empire Belt looks to be part of the Shared Assets or maybe they're just leasing a pair of CR GP40-2s.
Q163A heads over the EC Viaduct. Next Stop Syracuse!!
That wraps up my portion of Intermodal Ops #1! Be sure to follow the action on...
John Bruce's L.F. &N.W. Layout
Brian's Ralston Creek Layout
Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR Layout and
Ralph's Kings Port Division Layout
Check back on November 24th for the
conclusion of Intermodal Ops #1
Thanks for reading!!!
Wow John!! What a well thought out and thorough review of intermodal action in Empire City through the decades!!! Truly something for every rail fan! Glad this series gave you a chance to feature all that rolling sock and motive power that usually waits in the shadows during our NYC/PC exchanges! Looks like a lot of work but a lot of fun! Great job!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments Ralph!!! You hit it on the head, a lot of work and a lot of fun! I was happy to be part of this and appreciate your participation in it as well.
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To: Zenith Yards
To: Terminal Yard
From: Reynolds Terminal / Rock Ridge NJ
Acknowledgement - Dispatch of Intermodal Trains from Terminal Yard to points West
Reynolds Terminal Out!
Where do I start to say how great your intermodal moves were done! I feel like I was in a time warp! From Spine cars to well cars a great representation over the decades!
Very nice work!
10-4 Reynolds Terminal...
DeleteThank you very much Sir Neal!! Glad you enjoyed my portion of the intermodal op. It was a lot of fun and I appreciate all your contributions in making the intermodal op a success.
WOW, what an action packed and detailed segment covering the different Intermodal eras! The NYCTL must have gotten Doc Brown’s Flux Capacitor from the KPPD impound auction and hooked it up to their locomotives. Really great segment and lots of Intermodal goodies to enjoy 😉
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments Brian!!Glad you enjoyed my post. Thanks for your excellent contribution to Intermodal Ops #1!
DeleteI like the idea of making the Empire Belt part of Shared Assets. The Detroit area CSAO lines are part of Emery Gulash's old stomping grounds!
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it John I like it too! Thanks for the suggestion! I just added that in not really thinking of the Empire Belt beyond April 1976 much less 1999. Thanks for inspiring the Intermodal Ops and your excellent blog post making #1 a success.
ReplyDeleteGreat Job! I like the way you blended the era's together. Also a lot of good info on stacking containers prior to this post. Good info and great looking equipment!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark!! Glad you enjoyed the primer and ops post!
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