New York - New Jersey Ops #3 Part 6 / Inbound Traffic Continues to be Delivered

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Welcome Back to New York-New Jersey Ops #3!!!

NY-NJ Ops #3 continues today with the inbound freight traffic from  Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad's Rock Ridge Yard continuing to arrive in Terminal Yard. Local trains will handle the final mile moves as the railroads seek to satisfy their customers and earn revenue.

Part 6 opens up in Empire Empire City with Penn Central Train Extra 2647 East heading to Terminal Yard with NY-NJ Traffic from the APRR's Rock Ridge Yard.

Extra 2647 East arrives in Terminal Yard.

Kar Knocker gives Extra 2647 East a roll by inspection as it enters the yard.

U25Bs 2647 and 2568 are spotted on the fuel rack between a consist of U-Boats on the left and Alcos on the right.

The terminal switcher pulls the caboose.

Big Mike gets to work on the freight consist.

Two NY-NJ freight cars LV 7120 for Key Food at left and TPFX 5510 for University Millwork at right get placed in the BT-27 freight consist.

BAR 11128 joins a block of AP-500 series boxcars that will be interchanged with the B&O for movement to Terminal Warehouse & Cold Storage.

Empty EBRR - APRR Hi Cubes are coupled onto a block of AP-5800 series boxcars for movement to the Long Island Railroad.

Big Mike parks his trusty U23Cs on track 7 and waits out of the way for a pending outbound train to clear the yard. 

Over in the engine terminal Alco Joe is picking up the Alco consist that will power Train B-27, the outbound Bedford Turn.

The Alcos are coupled on and the BT-27 gets ready to leave.

Train BT-27 departs Terminal Yard.

The BT-27 stops on the mainline at Bedford Station further aggravating the commuters. What, do they want us to ride in boxcars now?!!!

Non NY-NJ boxcars are spotted at Schaefer

Alco Joe clears out the long Bedford industrial siding.

Conductor Murray signals Alco Joe to a gentle coupling.

With the siding cleared inbound NY-NJ freight traffic starts getting delivered. The Tropicana RBL loaded with juice products from Tropicana in Rock Ridge, NJ and LV Reefer 7120 loaded with hot dogs from Ball Park Products in Phila. PA are shoved into the Key Food siding. 

TPFX 5510, the first virtual ops car, loaded with lumber products from Triangle Pacific in Vancouver is placed at University Millwork.

The ACFX Hostess covered hopper loaded with flour at Cargill in Rock Ridge, NJ is spotted at the Hostess / Wonder Bread Plant. This industry dates back to well over a decade and was a very early collaboration with 1:1 Sir Neal who came up with the idea. 

We'll cut it here for today at Bedford Tower. After clearing the mainline and remembering the guff he took from the disgruntled commuters at Bedford Station last week Alco Joe decides to wait across from the tower for clearance back onto the main to make his runaround move. Looks like a good idea!

We'll pick it up tomorrow with the Empire Belt getting ready to run  transfer freight train EB-2 from North Side Yard to Terminal Yard.

This concludes part six on the NYCTL. Be sure to catch all the action on Sir Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad. 

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you tomorrow!!!