Car Cards & Waybills on the N.Y.C.T.L. Part 2

Greetings All,

Welcome back to the car card and waybills series!!

Items to be covered today:

1. Inbound freight train JNDO arriving at Terminal Yard.
2. Breaking down and blocking the freight cars from JNDO for forwarding to their next destinations using the car cards & waybills.
3. Running Train EC-1 from Terminal Yard with cars from JNDO to the Empire Belt RR's North Side Yard in Empire City.
4. Breaking down the EC-1 freight cars at North Side Yard for local delivery and interchange with the LIRR.

Inbound freight train JNDO from Putnam Junction 

passing RA Tower.

JNDO from Putnam Jct arrives at Terminal Yard.

 The JNDO has a healthy freight consist today.

JNDOs car cards and waybills clipped together. Terminal Yard status can be seen in the card boxes.
Track 2 is empty and slotted for Selkirk bound cars.
Track 3 has some empty foreign road cars.
Track 5 is holding Train SV-1, an auto rack, TOFC train going to Selkirk later today.
Track 6 is holding cars for Empire City that will make up Trains EC-1 and/or EC-3.

The car cards and waybills are hanging from a nail in front of the yard office. That nail really came in handy as this op unfolded!

After sorting thru the car cards and waybills it's time for the yard job to get to work.

Based on the large amount of freight cars going to Empire City today Track 2 which was empty and carded for Selkirk has been reassigned. The cars for EC-1 / EC-3 held previously in track 6 are getting pulled out for placement in track 2 

LV 8247 (a virtual ops car in non virtual ops use today but using a virtual ops waybill) is shoved into track 6. It is loaded with car batteries from Delco in Flint MI and consigned to the Bedford Park Ford Plant. Box 6 shows the car and track assignment. As I broke down the train I dropped the car cards into their proper slots. 

A block of cars for the LIRR sits temporarily on track 9. Having that clip on the side reminds me that these cars are still being worked. The rest of the car cards and waybills hang from the nail in front of the office.

In JNDOs consist is empty B&O covered hopper #600166. The car has no specific "return empty" instructions on it so before I forward it to the B&O I'll check my MTYS Request Boxes.

The Empire Belt (EB) has forwarded an empty request from Cargill in Empire City for a covered hopper to transport a load of grain to the Pier 16 Silos back here adjacent to Terminal Yard. A call to Cargill confirms they'll accept the two bay covered hopper. 

B&O 600166 is now consigned to Cargill in Empire City. 

I've doubled up the cars for Bedford and Bedford Park in track #6 as they are few for today. The Dresser Magcobar car is loaded with bentonite drilling fluid from an off layout industry and consigned to Hudson Coal in Bedford. The LIRR block is still sitting on track 9 but not finalized.

The yard job makes it final moves with the freight cars from JNDO. The LIRR block is shoved into track #2 and coupled up to the cars for Empire City proper. This is reflected in box #2.

 Four engines are assigned to a very heavy EC-1.

EC-1 heads thru Bedford towards Empire City and the EBRR's North Side Yard.

1/87th scale Sir Neal is gonna have a heart attack when he sees what I brung him! says conductor Murray in his best Captain Quint voice.

The freight cars from EC-1 are on track 2 and the car cards and waybills occupy yard box 2. 

That's better. To keep things running smoothly a card has been inserted into each box to remind of what is going where. Another finishing nail holds the car cards and waybills being worked.

Blocking the cars from EC-1 and the cars already in the yard for their respective destinations was time consuming and it was enjoyable. Other than the P.C.C.M.s aka the virtual ops I never paid this much attention to this many cars. First I had to separate and block cars for the three trains and then block the local for deliveries. It really had a good railroad feel to it. 

The 1/87th scale wiseguys look over the completed waybills and car cards. Note the empty car request in box 2 being filled by the EBRR from cars that were on hand in North Side Yard. In box 3 is train EB-2 that will take some PCCM cars and non PCCM cars to Terminal Yard. PC Gondola 576123, a PCCM car, is empty but needed at the Terminal Yard Shop for a load of scrap. This follows our rail traffic mgt. form which is basically a four cycle way bill.

We'll cut it here today with the empty clip hanging from the nail. The Terminal Yard transfer train EB-2 is ready to go from track 3. The local freight train, the Morning Industrial Job or Afternoon Industrial Job is ready in track 2 and the LIRR block is ready for interchange in track 3.

Not a bad day's work!

Running the above car card and waybill op while photographing some of the moves was a day's work! No longer making car movements by convenience this op session specifically dictated via waybill the blocking of freight cars and making up of freight trains. This was a new challenge that had me on my toes from the Terminal Yard op thru North Side Yard op. 

On Friday we'll focus on the dispatch of the Bedford Turn, work some industries using the car cards and waybills and drop some cars for the Bedford Park Yard crew to pick up.

Thanks for reading!!!

See ya Friday!!!