PCCM 111: Part 6 (conclusion) on the KPD

 

Greetings one more time!

This is my final installment for our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.    

Its up to the Kings Port & Western to finish delivering the remaining PCCM cars on my layout.  We'll start at Williams Yard where a WiBi-4 (Williams Yard to Binghamton) transfer run is getting ready to go.    The train will stop at West Mill to pick up four additional cars.

 

The four cars to be picked up include two short open hoppers to forward to the Lehigh Valley for coal loading, the Corning covered hopper which is full of silica sand for its home company, and PC #360063 loaded with food packaging materials from C&P Restaurant Supplies for Cavendish Foods.

The FA-B-A set uncouples from its train to make the pick up.

Watch the action in the video below!

The WiBi-4 receives permission to proceed to Binghamton

Follow the train's departure from West Mill and arrival at the KP&W's CS Yard in Binghamton in the video below.  There were no drones in the 1970s so the film of the end of WiBi-4 leaving town was taken from a nearby hillside!

After arriving at Binghamton some of the cars are interchanged with the Lehigh Valley R.R. and the Erie Lackawanna which both have yards near the KP&W's CS Yard.   The two open hoppers and the empty NIRX #41000 will be taken to Sayre, PA by the LV's Sayre Turn.  The hoppers will later be sent to a Pennsylvania coal mine.

The EL sends a daily transfer exchange to CS Yard from its QD Yard.  It will take the Corning covered hopper which will later be put on the EL's train NE-5 to Corning.

The rest of the cars from Williams Yard will go out on a KP&W local from CS Yard.  These include PC gon #288673 and PC #104478 for Amalgamated Container (ACCO)...PC #3600063 for Cavendish Foods and EBRR # 360279 carrying a cutting machine for International Paper, and two NYC double door boxcars for IBM loaded with wire and electrical harnesses from Bruce Electric. 

The KP&W crew for the run boards RS3 #566.

The CS Yard Local gets underway.

The local sets out three 60 foot cars at ACME Auto Parts.... 

 

Empty PC boxcar #104478 and PC gondola #288673 at ACCO... 

 PC #360063 to Cavendish Foods with packaging materials from C&P Restaurant Supplies...

 EBRR boxcar #360279 with a cutting machine from Reliable Machine for International Paper Co....

 

...and to complete the job, two NYC double door boxcars loaded with wires and cable harnesses from Bruce Electric for IBM. 

Let's return our attention to Williams Yard in Kings Port where the crew has assembled a two brown boxcar Yard Local to deliver the NYC Early Bird boxcar to Booms Ready Mix loaded with Walsh steel wool, and P&LE boxcar #35892 empty to Blue Ribbon Flour. 

 

A Steel Job to KP Steel is also ready for dispatch with P&LE gon #40331 loaded with scrap for the Basic Oxygen furnace and empty gon EBRR #509823 included in the string of cars.  The other gons on this train are nonplayer cars heading to KP Steel.   

 The red TPFX #5510 seen in the background above is loaded with lumber for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.

 

 PC depressed well flat #766053 is carrying an EMD prime mover that will replace an ailing motor in one of the KP&W's F7As.

 

 

Watch the prime mover get delivered to the engine shop, the TPFX car set out at Battaglia Brothers, the dispatch of the Steel Job and the Yard Local in the video below.

 

 The P&LE car is set out at Blue Ribbon Flour...

...and the Early Bird is delivered to Booms Ready Mix.

The Steel Job with its gondolas will soon reach KP Steel.

 

And, finally as the other cars leave the yard, APRR hopper #9416 loaded with ballast is set out on a track needing MOW attention.

 That concludes my Kings Port Division's part in PCCM 111!  I hope you enjoyed following the car movements on all three layouts!

PCCM 111: Part 5 on the KPD

 

Hello again!

This is the fifth installment of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.    All the cars scheduled to arrive on the Kings Port Division from John's and Neal's layouts for this series are now either at West Mill or the KP&W's Williams Yard.   Its time to get those cars to their respective customers!

 We're going to spend the day at West Mill Yard where a Bloomberg Turn has been assembled to serve the industrial park in the Catskill Mountain community.

The HRC, NH, GT, and IC boxcars are all going to Van Winkle Canning.   The NH # 36116 is carrying new cans from American Can while the GT and IC cars are loaded with packaged food intended for British tastes from Cavendish Foods.  The HRC car is loaded with perishable foods from C&P Restaurant Supply.

GP38-2 #8150 is often assigned to the Bloomberg Turn.  Its crew is seen boarding below.

While checking the train's air hose connections a couple of crewmen pause to reflect on the late Engineer Ed who was a generous and enjoyable part of our virtual ops years ago with his freelanced Hoschton Railway Company.  The HRC car is a nice legacy.

The yard switcher tacks on the usual transfer caboose for this run.   Conductor Fingers O'Malley is on the back porch, as usual, also complaining...as usual!

The Bloomberg Turn backs out of West Mill Yard and takes the branch up to the Catskills.

 About two hours later the Turn has dropped off the four cars at Van Winkle Canning.  The HRC RBL with perishables was prioritized for the loading dock...

...while the others were constructively placed for unloading later.

The Turn then moved on to Quality Fabrications to drop off an empty aging former Pacemaker boxcar.   It then finished its work by....

 ..,setting out empty P&E #3638 at REVCO, 

Returning to West Mill Yard we see SD9 #6922 getting ready to work the car float.

Two boxcars, KP&W #15638 loaded with steel banding from Shapeless Steel and EL #73510 loaded with bagged iron ore from T&R Gravel are heading across the river to the Port Owen Brick Co.

They will travel with a string of coal hoppers being forwarded to the Con Ed power plant at Port Owen.

The car float has been carefully loaded and waits to shove off.

It takes 45 minutes to reach and tie up to Port Owen's car float apron.   SD9 #6925 pulls the cars off of the float

 The two PCCM cars for Port Owen Brick Co. are set out by the SD9.

The last train of the day from West Mill is a short Southbound Local that will be serving Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors.  

The PCCM car on this train is the new PTTX bulkhead flatcar #91313 loaded with lumber from Astoria Lumber.  This very nice car was provided by John!

The Southbound Local is powered by a rumbling RSD12 #6865.  The six axle Alco was originally PRR #8665 before the merger.  After backing out of the yard it hits the horn while leading the short train into the south tunnel toward Half Moon.

The four bulkhead flatcars are set out at Half Moon Wholesale Lumber

 The last work before the end of the shift is to set out four cars for the KP&W's WiB-4 to pick up on its way from Kings Port to Binghamton, the lines western terminus.

 The two APRR hoppers will be forwarded by the KP&W to the Lehigh Valley Coal Connection.

PC #360063 carries food packaging materials for Cavendish Foods from C&P Restaurant Supply while the Corning covered hoppers is returning to its home company loaded with silica sand from Pennsylvania Glass Sand in Millville

The four cars are set out on a siding for easy pick up by the KP&W transfer to Binghamton.

That concludes today's action!   Tomorrow the KP&W will take center stage and finish forwarding the remaining PCCM cars on my layout to their consignees!

 

PCCM 111: Part 4 on the KPD

Welcome back!

This is the fourth installment of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.  This weekend's posts feature "inbound" moves as trains dispatched from the N.Y.C.T.L. and the APRR arrive on the Kings Port Division with cars to be forwarded to various consignees.

We're at Selkirk waiting for Penn Central train SK-5 from Terminal Yard.

The train from John's Terminal Yard arrives closely followed by a freight coming off the old Boston & Albany line.

Three empty B&M RBLs are cut from SK-5 and will later be put on a transfer to Mechanicville for eventual forwarding to Merrimack, NH.   

The NH boxcar #3116 and Triangle Pacific boxcar TTPFX #5510 along with the three 60 foot auto parts cars were added to several cars that came in from Terminal Yard to create train VW-1.    VW-1 and NY-20, the transfer to Mechanicville, leave Selkirk together.   NY-20 is seen arriving later at Mechanicville just when D&H freight PB-99 is leaving for Binghamton, NY.

 An hour later VW-1 arrives at Kings Port to set out some cars.

 The KP&W's Williams Yard will receive a number of cars today.

 The first string being backed into Williams Yard by VW-1's three unit consist includes the old NYC Early Bird boxcar carrying Walsh Steel Wool for Booms Cement, EBRR #360279 loaded with a cutting machine for IBM, two NYC double door boxcars with wires and cable harnesses from B.E.E. to IBM...

 APRR #9416 loaded with ballast for Williams Yard and a depressed center flat car with an EMD prime mover for the Williams Yard engine facility...

 P&LE gondola #40331 loaded with scrap from Gershow for KP Steel, and LV NIRX #41000 returning empty to Binghamton....

 ...three empty 60 foot auto parts cars for ACME Auto Parts...

 ....and TPFX #5510 loaded with lumber supplies for nearby Battaglia Brothers Warehouse

After setting out cars for Williams Yard VW-1 prepares to continue to West Mill.   

Receiving permission to proceed VW-1 hauls out of town.

About a half hour later VW-1 arrives at West Mill...

...and sets out three cars, EL boxcar # 73510 loaded with bagged T&R Gravel iron ore for Port Owen Brick Co., bulkhead flat PTTX #91313 loaded with lumber for Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors, and NH boxcar #36116 carrying new cans from American Can for Van Winkle Canning. 

After the set out VW-1 runs to Weehawken.

Yard switcher #8951 is assigned to bring the short cut left by VW-1 into the yard.

All is quiet at West Mill for a couple of hours until northbound Weehawken to Selkirk transfer WV-2 arrives with cars from Nea'ls APRR.

After setting out cars the WV-2 continues on its way to Selkirk.

We get a good look at the cut of cars from Rock Ridge Yard as switcher #8951 brings them into the yard.

 

All of the cars coming in from the N.Y.C.T.L. and APRR have arrived at West Mill and Williams Yard, setting the stage for the dispatch of local trains to deliver them to their respective consignees.  Come back tomorrow to catch the action!