Penn Central Car Movements #100 Part 2 / Spending the day in Empire City

 Greetings All,

Welcome back to Penn Central Car Movements #100!!!

Our four layout virtual with my NYCTL interchanging freight cars with atjoe1972's Ralston Creek RR PC Ralph's Kings Port Division and Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR continues today as we'll spend the day with the Empire Belt RR.

We open up today at North Side Yard in Empire City with the EBRR trainmen having their safety briefing with an EBRR covered hopper in the background showing a PC herald that was applied in February 1968 when the New York Central subsidiary became a Penn Central subsidiary.

After getting the yard in order Senior engineer Sir Neal and conductor John will run today's Belt Job with the GP18-FB1-GP18 lash up. PC Ralph and brakeman Rocky will handle the yard duties.

The Belt Job moves onto the Belt Line.

First stop is Empire City Cargill to pull the Cargill covered hopper loaded with wheat flour for Blue Ribbon Flour in Kings Port NY. The two empty EBRR covered hoppers will placed here for their next PCCM loads

Now working Gervais Pipe & Fitting the Belt Job pulls out three empty coil coaches that are going back to Kings Port Steel for their next PCCM loads and PC gondola #288673 loaded with pipe for the Hudson Valley Agriculture Co-Op (HVAC).

Next we catch three empty PC RBLS and an empty NYC boxcar still in the Early Bird paint scheme get pulled from the Ralph's Grocery Warehouse siding for their next PCCM loads.

With the long shared siding now clear a pair of gondolas, MCRR #350623 and KPW #2140, are placed at Gervais Pipe for their next PCCM loads.

The Belt Job starts working the Midtown industries and pulls empty boxcars EL #73510 and NYC #47062 from Neal's Hardware for their next PCCM loadings.

Two reefers of produce get pulled from Empire Produce. BAR #7574 will be heading to C&P Restaurant Supply and NPM #473 will be going to ShopRite. Both are located in Rock Ridge, NJ.

Empty NYC covered hopper #892010 is spotted at Red Wing Milling for its next PCCM load.

An aerial view from the highway overpass gives us a good look at North Side Yard. The Belt Job getting ready to head west and 1:87 Emery is perched in his favorite spot capturing the action.

The Belt Job heads west.

First stop on the west side is Superior Furniture to pull GN boxcar #3630 loaded with furniture for American Furniture in Denver, CO and a non PCCM D&H boxcar also loaded with furniture for a Canadian consignee.

Penn Central boxcar #360063 gets pulled from Reliable Machine Company loaded with a cutting machine for Canton Box in West Mill, NY as the empty PC RBLs look on.

The Belt Job continues working the west side and pulls PC boxcar #77047 from Moore & Company loaded with burlap bags for Hedberg Aggregates in Mount Marion, NY.

P&LE boxcar #30890 gets pulled from City Pallet loaded with pallets for the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO.

An old NYC Pacemaker car gets pulled from Drywell Inks loaded with 55 gallon drums of ink for the Catskill Mountain Press in Bloomberg, NY.

EBRR boxcars #416035, #416079 and PC boxcar #360508 get pulled from Walsh Steel Wool Products loaded with steel wool consigned to American Hardware Supply in Rock Ridge, NJ.. With today's switching work complete Senior Engineer Sir Neal has the Belt Job with 21 PCCM cars and12 non PCCM cars back together and ready to head back to North Side Yard or as close to it as he can get. 

The Belt Job heads towards North Side Yard.

To avoid overloading North Side Yard the Belt Job arrives back on the Belt Line where Sir Neal will have enough railroad to work the train with PC Ralph.

Two cars staying in Empire City to fulfill empty car requests are set out for pick up. The rest of the cars on the Belt Job will head to Terminal Yard in train EB-2

Looking from high above Empire City PC Ralph and brakeman Rocky have coupled onto the cars staying local and talk over the next moves with conductor John and Sir Neal.

The empties have been brought back to North Side Yard. The NYC Early Bird boxcar will be cleaned and ready for its next PCCM load.

PC Ralph couples up to eleven PCCM cars that arrived yesterday in LIRR Train MA-3 that need to be moved to Terminal Yard as part of EBRR Train EB-2.

PC Ralph has backed the cars down the main and the two consists are lashed together by brakeman Rocky to power the 42 car EB-2.

The EBRR guys put Train EB-2 together.

Train EB-2 departs Empire City.

The EB-2 rumbles thru Bedford towards Terminal Yard.

Train EB-2 arrives in Terminal Yard.

We'll cut it here for today. After doubling over their train the EBRR guys talk about PCCM 100 with Kar Knocker and Big Mike as they pick up their caboose to head back to North Side Yard.

We'll pick it up tomorrow starting with the 16A crew followed by a Mine Run and close out the outbound portion with the dispatch of the PCCM trains to Selkirk, 

Be sure to catch all of the PCCM 100 action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR, PC Ralph's Kings Port Division and atjoe 1972's Ralston Creek RR. 

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you tomorrow!!!