Penn Central Car Movements #97 / Holiday Coal Operations Part 2

 Greetings All,

Welcome back to Penn Central Car Movements #97!!!

Our annual Holiday Coal Operations which feature coal train movements across the Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR and PC Ralph's Kings Port Division and my NYCTL continues today.

Day Two

We open up at North Side Yard with conductor John announcing we have work!!! The PC has requested as many empty coal hoppers as we can send getting PC Ralph and Sir Neal out of their lounge chairs.

A traffic downturn has North Side Yard filled with empty Empire Belt hoppers, boxcars and its motive power fleet all being stored serviceable until their next callout.

1:87 Emery photos the yard from his favorite vantage point atop Empire City Produce.

There he is documenting the action or inaction as the case may be.

The EBRR guys get to work sorting out the yard.

Train EB-2, the transfer run from North Side Yard to Terminal Yard, crosses the Empire City viaduct as we see a trio of stored EBRR cabooses on the westside storage track. 

EBRR Train EB-2 gets a highball at Bedford Tower.

Train EB-2 rumbles thru Bedford, NY.

And arrives in Terminal Yard.

 

After coupling up to their caboose for the return trip to North Side Yard PC Ralph, Sir Neal and conductor John checkout the mishap at the TOFC ramp. Looks like the crane operator put a loaded trailer down on the landing gear instead of the wheels causing the landing gear to collapse. It happens sometimes!

The EBRR guys head back to North Side Yard caboose light as train EB-3.

Back in Terminal Yard today's Penn Central Train CJ-1, the Coal Job, is ready to depart for Hudson Coal.

Train CJ-1 departs from Terminal Yard.

The Coal Job starts pulling the loaded hoppers from Hudson Coal.

Uh oh!!!

Four empty hoppers are on the ground blocking the mainline next to T&R Gravel. 

The wreck train has been called and passes Bedford Tower as the CJ-1 power burbles away on the Bedford Park Yard lead. That's none other than Alco Joe at the throttle of the 1728 making the run back to to the Terminal Yard engineers pool district.

Here comes the wreck train!

 

 

Penn Central brass and the Bedford PD watch the wreck train start clearing the mainline. 

The first of the four derailed hoppers are loaded onto a flatcar. Division Superintendent Shore is not having a good day and will be writing reports for the next week!!

The four derailed hoppers are loaded and pulled from the mainline.

A new crew has been called to retrieve the upright hoppers sitting on the main using the CJ-1 power that was stationed at Bedford Tower.

Extra 5693 West brings the upright hoppers towards Empire City and the Empire Belt RR's North Side Yard.

 

The mainline is now clear and a passenger train blocked at East Bedford Station heads towards Empire City Station leading the parade out of Terminal Yard.

The delayed trains are on the move.

The wreck train engines are recrewed and get ready to head to Terminal Yard to turn the crane and tender and drop the derailed hoppers.

We'll cut here for today with the Wreck Train heading to Terminal Yard.

We'll pick it up tomorrow in Terminal Yard with our final installment.

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!!!