Penn Central Car Movements #74 / NYCTL Part 3

Greetings All,

Welcome back to Penn Central Car Movements #74!!

We conclude the outbound portion our Penn Central three layout virtual op today fifty years to the day the Penn Central declared bankruptcy and became the largest corporate failure in history at that time.*

Like the 1:1 trainmen of the Penn Central the 1:87 trainmen on our layouts continue to do their jobs to the best of their abilities and the freight will keep moving as we interchange virtual ops freight cars with 1:1 Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and

PC Ralph's Kings Port Division 

We open up at the very busy Empire Belt RR's North Side Yard in Empire City, NY with the E.B.R.R. guys preparing for 1/87th scale PC Ralph to bring Train EB-4 to the Penn Central Terminal Yard in Bedford NY.

Train EB-4 eases out of the yard passing Hohman Ave.

EBRR Train EB-4 heads to Terminal Yard

1/87th scale PC Ralph brings EB-4 into Terminal Yard and turns the rest of the outbound portion of the op over to the Penn Central.

PC U23C #6718 is once again handling the yard duties in Terminal Yard and gets to work on the EB-4 freight cars.

A seven car cut going to the A.P.R.R.s Rock Ridge Yard is shoved into track #1. 

Freight cars for K.P.D.s West Mill Yard get blocked in track #3.

A trio of AP covered hoppers get shoved towards the Pier 16 yard.

The AP covered hoppers are spotted at the Pier 16 Grain Silos holding track for their next P.C.C.M. loads.

Yard engine 6718 is at Terminal Warehouse & Cold Storage pulling six 57' reefers loaded with frozen food for C&P Restaurant Supply and a 50' PC boxcar loaded with bulk paper for Marcal Industries. Both consignees are located in Rock Ridge NJ.

A Pier 16 yard switcher is at Bruce Electric Equipment and pulls this NYC Hi cube boxcar loaded with wire and cables for I.B.M. in Binghamton NY.

The 6718 picks up the NYC hi cube for delivery to the West Mill train. Outbound Extra 1644 is idling on track 8A.

A little bit later the 6718 is in the engine terminal area pulling two PC gondolas loaded with scrap metal for Kings Port Steel.

With the train building getting close to completion we catch the first train out of Terminal Yard getting ready for departure. Extra 1644 will terminate at Selkirk. NYC RR Hudson Division timetable #22 mandates that pulpwood / saw log cars must not be in Symbol Trains, must not exceed 25 MPH on tangent tracks and 15 MPH on curves.

Extra 1644 rolls out of Terminal Yard

Extra 1644

Engines: 1644 - 2423 - 1645

Freight Cars

SRR Bulkhead

SRR Bulkhead

EBRR Bulkhead

L&N Bulkhead

CBQ Bulkhead

BN Bulkhead

PRR Hopper

NYC Hopper

Six Coal Hoppers for Port Owen Power Plant
Six Coal Hoppers for R.M.O. Electric 

Caboose: PC 18436

Next stop Selkirk!!!

Our two P.C.C.M. Symbol Trains are now ready for departure. First out will be Train SK-5 with freight traffic for the Kings Port Division on track #9 at left followed by Train SK-7 with freight traffic for the Atlantic Pacific RR on track #8. Both trains will terminate at Selkirk.

Train SK-5 departs Terminal Yard

Train SK-5

Engines: 1862 - 4156 - 3469 - 1693

PC 576123

PC 576104

KP&W Coil Coach

P&LE Coil Coach

P&E 3638

MCRR 350623

KP&W 2140

HRC 941029

PC 77047

TPW 627

NYCPacemaker

NAHX 90404 / Corning

NYC 173861

Caboose: NYC 21698

Next stop Selkirk!!!

Train SK-7 rolls out of Terminal Yard

Train SK-7

Engines: 6282 - 6190 - 6102

EB 416079

EB 416035

PC 360508

AP 8260

AP 8294

AP 8279

AP 4035

AP 4182

EB 827946

EB 827941

ACFX 56670 / Hostess

PC 876818

PC 877242

PC 882509

PC 882147

EB 5728

EB 5730

EB5726

AP 5760

AP 5782

AP 5794

BAR 7574

Caboose: NYC 24524

Next Stop Selkirk!!!

That wraps up the N.Y.C.T.L.s P.C.C.M 74 outbound portion. 

Be sure to follow the action on

1:1 Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and

PC Ralph's Kings Port Division.

* On June 21st at 11:00 AM ten of the twelve Penn Central Board Members met with CEO / President Paul Gorman and others in the board room at Penn Center Plaza. After discussing annual salaries for nine vice presidents and disposing of the officers salaries and pension benefits the board finally turned to the question of survival.

At approximately 5:00 PM Mr Gorman was called out of the board room to take a telephone call from the Secretary of Transportation. When he returned with the news that no loans would be forthcoming the board authorized the filing for a voluntary reorganization under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act.

At 5:40 PM, June 21, 1970 Judge Kraft signed the order at his home and the Penn Central had officially collapsed...

Information obtained from the book "The Wreck of the Penn Central" by Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen. 

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