Penn Central Car Movements #91 Part 6 / The Empire Belt Delivers

 Greetings All,

Welcome back to Penn Central Car Movements #91!!!

We continue our inbound portion today after the arrival of two trains from Selkirk with freight traffic from 1:1 Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division.

Two Alco C-425s and the one and only PC C-424 #2415 are brought from the engine terminal into the yard to power Train EC-1.

Engine hostler Wet Willie has the engines coupled to the EC-1 freight consist and continues his hot streak of getting Alcos to the trains Alco Joe is called for. 

Train EC-1, the daily transfer run from Terminal Yard heads to Empire City with freight for the Empire Belt and Long Island RRs.

Alco Joe brings the EC-1 into the Empire Belt RR's North Side Yard as the EBRR crew is out inspecting the inbound train.

With the EC-1 power coupled onto their caboose for the return to Terminal Yard Alco Joe takes a few minutes to exchange pleasantries with the EBRR trainmen as PC conductor Murray delivers the waybills to EBRR conductor John.

Alco Joe and conductor Murray head back to Terminal Yard caboose lite as Train EC-2. Union rules and agreements between the PC and EBRR allow for delivery of freight from yard to yard but the delivering RR has to run lite back to it's own yard.

Conductor John with waybills in hand checks in with the labor force to ascertain that he will have several empty and clean boxcars available for their next local PCCM loadings.

With the train accepted for interchange and the waybills OKed the EBRR trainmen put their yard in order and the Empire Belt Local aka The Industrial Job leaves the yard.

The Empire Belt Local comes onto the secondary track and shoves back to start it's work.

The first stop is Neal's Lumber & Hardware to deliver two EBRR boxcars loaded with plumbing supplies from American Hardware Supply in Rock Ridge NJ. Hey! There's Sir Neal flagging traffic!

The EBRR Local is now working the east side industrial complex pulling cars from Ralph's Grocery Warehouse, Gervais Pipe & Fitting and the Empire City Cargill facility.

Being spotted at Ralph's Grocery Warehouse are EL reefer #5034 from Freihofer's Bakery, BAR reefer #11128 from C&P Restaurant Supply and EBRR RBL #358160 from Marcal Paper products.

Empty APRR and EBRR gondolas are spotted at Gervais Pipe & Fitting for their next PCCM loads.

Three APRR covered hoppers loaded with barley are shoved into the Cargill Facility. 

With the work completed on the east side the EBRR Local heads west.

Crossing the Empire City viaduct we get a good view of our three empty cars that have been cleaned and ready to be delivered to local shippers for their next PCCM loads.

The empty NYC Early Bird boxcar gets shoved into the Walsh Steel Wool Products siding for it's next PCCM load.

Empty P&E boxcar #3638 is shoved into the Drywell Inks siding for it's next PCCM load along with LV boxcar #66392 loaded with new 55 gallon drums from ACCO.

Empty NH boxcar #36116 is spotted at City Pallet for its next PCCM load.

Also filling an empty car request from City Pallet is PC boxcar #104478 which is spotted for its next PCCM load.

Constructively placed on the west side storage track due to a full siding is BAR boxcar #5226 that is consigned to Ralph's Grocery Warehouse and loaded with packaged meals from Cavendish Food & Spirits.

The EBRR Local is back together and pumping up the air pressure.

The Local heads back to North Side Yard.

PC Ralph is in the fireman's seat as he trains a young fireman to become an engineer as the ECL brings the train into North Side Yard.       

The local pulls thru the yard.

We'll cut it here today with the local tied down on track #3 and the Long Island interchange traffic ready to go east on track #2.

We'll pick it up tomorrow starting in Bedford Park and close out the op with the Long Island RR interchange.

Be sure to follow the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division.

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you tomorrow!!!