Penn Central Car Movements #93 Part 1/ The Virtual Op Begins

 Greetings All,

Welcome to Penn Central Car Movements #93!!!

P.C.C.M. #93 will be a three layout virtual op with my NYCTL interchanging freight traffic with 1:1 Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division.

Astute Penn Central fans will recognize that fifty two years ago this weekend was to be the last weekend of solvency for the RR. 

Gone are Saunders, Perlman, and Bevan after a special board of directors meeting on June 8th. Penn Central president Paul A. Gorman is now president and chairman of the PC. His reign will be a short one.

On June 21, 1970, a Sunday, the financially strapped Penn Central would file for bankruptcy protection becoming the largest corporate bankruptcy of the time. 

And the trains kept rolling...

We open our PCCM action with the Bedford Park Yard Job pulling an LV boxcar and APRR boxcar #58260 from All City Storage. The APRR boxcar is loaded with furniture for 3 Amigos Warehouse in Rock Ridge NJ. The LV car is empty and will be forwarded back to the LV at Tonawanda NY.

The BPY job works the Ford Plant pulling empty auto parts boxcars. The EBRR 503827 will be heading to IDEAL Auto Parts in Rock Ridge NJ and the EBRR 608279 will be heading to ACME Auto Parts in Mayfield NY. 

Empty 60' APRR boxcars will be returning to IDEAL Auto Parts for their next PCCM loads. The APRR car to the left is the newest car on the APRR roster and making its PCCM debut as the APRR looks to continue capitalizing on this profitable traffic.

The Bedford Park Yard Job collects its caboose and readies to depart the Bedford Park Yard limits.

The BPY heads for Bedford Tower and Terminal Yard as train BP-12.

Train BP-12 arrives in Terminal Yard.

The Terminal Yard crew has the freight cars going back to Bedford Park ready to go and after an air test the BPY crew departs as Train BP-41.

Train BP-41 heads to Bedford Park.

We'll leave the BP-41 as it arrives in the cozy confines of Bedford Park with non PCCM cars.

We turn our attention to Terminal Yard as Train VN-4 from Selkirk arrives with APRR GP38 #358 leading an F7B and F7A.

Train VN-4 has stopped on track #9. An added treat for railfans is the appearance of APRR caboose #58 that brought up the markers on the VN-4. Kar Knocker has cleared the BP-12 train from Bedford Park sitting on track #8 as the yard job couples on.

The VN-4 power heads into the engine terminal as we see shop workers loading empty 55 gallon drums into GM&O boxcar #21129 for return to Gulf Oil in West Mill NY.

A couple of hours later we catch Alco Joe heading towards a pair of Alcos powering Train BT-27, the Bedford Turn. 

Train BT-27 departs Terminal Yard.

The Bedford Turn begins its work at the Hostess Plant pulling three Hi Cube boxcars loaded with baked goods for ShopRite in Rock Ridge, NJ and an empty Hostess covered hopper returning to the large Cargill Plant also in Rock Ridge NJ.

Being pulled from University Millwork are non PCCM empty All Door boxcars and PC boxcar #360158 loaded with console TV cabinets (remember them?) for Zenith TV in Bloomberg NY.

After spotting non PCCM cars at Schaefer and Neubaum's the locomotives await clearance to access the main to make their runaround move.

The Terminal Yard Wreck Train passes the BT-27 power and Bedford Station.

The BT-27 is back together and holds for clearance to enter the mainline.

Alco Joe brings the BT-27 to Terminal Yard.

The RS-2s have cut off from the BT-27 and head into the engine terminal.

We'll cut it her for today with Big Mike ready to pull the caboose  and Kar Knocker out to inspect the train.

We'll pick it up tomorrow in Empire City with LIRR train MA-3 arriving at North Side Yard to interchange our PCCM freight cars.

Be sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division!

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See yo tomorrow!!!