Penn Central Car Movements #75/ N.Y.C.T.L. Part 6 / The Inbound Cycle Concludes

 Greetings All,

Welcome back to the Penn Central Car Movements #75

The inbound portion of this three layout virtual op featuring PC Ralph's Kings Port Division and Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR interchanging freight cars with my New York Central Train Layout concludes today.

Penn Central Train TY-4 (Selkirk to Terminal Yard) rattles the windows of Empire City with an SD35-SD9 lash up.

TY-4 passing Bedford Station

TY-4 arriving at Terminal Yard. PC fans might recognize a similar lash up from the opening of Green Frog Videos Penn Central Vol. 2.

The SD35 - SD9 power combo have cut from the TY-4 and are rolling thru the engine terminal.

And easing down the fuel rack.

1/87th scale Kar Knocker is out to inspect the train as the yard job pulls off the caboose.

A couple of hours later the TY-4 freight cars are blocked for their local destinations.

Once again 1/87th scale Alco Joe gets his favorite power lash up. Today he is called for PC Extra 1049 which will be a combined Bedford Turn (BT-27) and Empire City transfer(EC-1).

First Stop for Extra 1049 is T&R Gravel to pull out a pair of loaded PS2 hoppers.

Four empty Penn Central PS-2 hoppers sent from the A.P.R.R. Engine Terminal get shoved into T&R for loads of locomotive sand.

Extra 1049 is back together on the Bedford Secondary passing Berk Enterprises where they'll pullout the two RF&P boxcars and spot an LV 50' boxcar. 

The LV boxcar with reporting marks NIRX 41000 is spotted at Berk Enterprises with rolls of adhesive backed paper from International Paper in Binghamton NY. The Lehigh Valley leased four of these boxcars from General Electric Rail Services numbered NIRX 41000-41003. They would later be renumber LV 7050-7053. 

The Bedford switching completed Extra 1049 crosses over to the mainline and heads for Empire City.

Extra 1049 arrives at North Side Yard tall and proud.

Extra 1049 rolls down yard track #2 where they'll drop the train, cut off the engines and perform a runaround move to pick up their outbound cars and caboose.

The 1049 couples up to the RF&P 50'er and prepares for departure.

With the 1049 in the trailing position the train now identified as Extra 2103 leaves North Side Yard.

Next we turn our attention to the Empire Belt RR. 1/87th scale PC Ralph is assigned today's Morning Industrial Job (the MIJ) to deliver the newly arrived freight cars from Extra 1049.

The MIJ is shoving into the east side industrial complex.

Pulled from Empire City Cargill is this Cargill hopper loaded with Barley for Cavendish Foods & Spirits in Mayfield NY.

Empty coil coaches get pulled from Gervais Pipe for return to Kings Port Steel. That new crane has made loading and unloading much faster and safer.

Three PC covered hoppers loaded with wheat flour from the large Rock Ridge NJ Cargill plant are spotted at Empire City Cargill.

A pair of empty EBRR gondolas are spotted at Gervais Pipe for their next P.C.C.M. loads.

1/87th scale PC Ralph holds the MIJ west of the switch to the mainline as Sir Neal finishes up organizing the yard.

The MIJ is back in the yard and adds the coil coaches and covered hopper to the P.C.C.M. cars waiting to depart for Terminal Yard.

We'll cut it here for this P.C.C.M. with the guys waiting for the L.I.R.R. Transfer Run before departing for Terminal Yard with train EB-2. We'll pick that up starting in P.C.C.M. #76.

Be sure to catch the rest of the inbound action on

PC Ralph's Kings Port Division and

Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR.

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See ya soon.