Penn Central Car Movement 42 B

Two fellow modelers and bloggers, John R and Ralph V, came up with an interesting twist on "interchange" between model railroads. What they figured out was that many layouts share cars with the same number -- bluebox cars, for instance -- and it's easy to conceptualize that bluebox car A "moves" from one layout to another. Two other modelers have been adding to this idea, Neal M and Engineer Ed.

John R used a set of my custom decals to letter a duplicate of a car on my layout, Los Feliz and North Western 160. We ran an "exchange" of this car late last year. Now I'm joining the full Penn Central Car Movement fun with movement 42.

LFNW 160 will return to the Empire Belt with canned goods from the Oswego Manufacturing Company in West Egg, consigned to Ralph's Grocery in Empire City. In addition, a PFE mechanical reefer will be consigned from the Citrus Association packing house in Sunkist to the Cold Storage Warehouse at Terminal Yard on the Empire Belt. p>Below we see 1/87 John R signaling Engineer Ed on the SP switcher that they've made a good joint:

SP 1481 pulls the spur and returns via Jaques:

Meanwhile, Sir Neal pulls LFNW 160 from Oswego Manufacturing while Ralph V flags traffic:

Both cars are switched in Manhattan Transfer and will go out to the SP tonight, to get to the Penn Central via SP, UP, and CNW: