PCCM 112: Part 6 on the KPD

 

Hello for one last time in this series! 

We're at Williams Yard in Kings Port where the last remaining PCCM cars are going to be forwarded to their respective consignees to wrap things up for PCCM 112!

Two gons loaded with irrigation pipe from Gervais Pipe and Fittings are set out at the unloading platform for the Hudson Valley Ag COOP

A short Yard Local is being prepared to serve the nearby Gulf facility on the river and Boom's Ready Mix.  The TP&W #627 is loaded with steel wool for Booms.

Three empty tankers are headed to the Gulf facility.

The Yard Local heads out of Williams Yard and sets out the cars.   A KP&W RDC is seen heading toward Marion on the highline with second shift employees for Hedberg Aggregates.

 The TP&W car is set out at Booms Ready Mix...

..and the three tankers are delivered to Gulf.

That finishes the Yard Local's work!  The switchers and caboose will return to Williams Yard where a crew is assembling today's Steel Job for KP Steel, seen below. 

While we can't see them all from this angle, cars included on the Steel Job from Williams Yard today are:

Five empty Evans Steel Coil Coaches.... 

...six hoppers loaded with Hudson Coal...

...and three gondolas loaded with scrap metal for the Basic Oxygen Furnace.

 KP&W GP9 #742 is assigned to the Steel Job and moves to couple up to the strings of cars before leading them out of the yard.  The cut of cars later arrives at the steel complex.

That is the last delivery of PCCM cars on the KPD for this series!  Thanks for following along!  Time to tie up and go to beans!

See you next time! 

PCCM 112: Part 5 on the KPD

 

Welcome back!

We are continuing our 112th 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 own Kings Port Division.

Starting at West Mill Yard switcher #8951 sets out a cut of cars to be picked up by the KP&W's WiBi-4 transfer from Williams Yard in Kings Port to Binghamton, NY.  They include six loaded cement hoppers for  Binghamton Precast & Supply and an empty KP&W boxcar for International Paper Co.

Switching over to the KP&W's Williams Yard in Kings Port we're just in time to witness the dispatch of the WiBi-4 with a pair of aging F7As on the point.   The KP&W is muddling by with an almost exclusively First Generation diesel roster.

 

The Williams Yard entrance Towerman and a colleague perform a roll-by inspection as the WiBi-4 departs for West Mill and Binghamton.

The WiBi-4's F units prepare to set out an empty P&LE gondola for Bell Pole and Lumber and two PS-2 hoppers loaded with lime for Port Owen Brick Co. sent by T&R Gravel.

 The three set outs are coupled up to the pick ups....

 The KP&W boxcar and the cement cars that were placed on the siding for pick-up are tacked onto the WiBi-4....

The empty gon and the two PS-2s loaded with lime are then left behind on the siding and the F7As return to their train to prepare for departure to Binghamton.

  

The WiBi-4 receives permission to proceed to Binghamton! 

The last job at West Mill for this PCCM series is to load the car float with the four coal hoppers delivered yesterday for Con Ed and the two PS2 hoppers loaded with lime for Port Owen Brick Company that arrived today.  SD9 #6922 takes on the assignment as usual.

 

 

The cars are carefully loaded on the car float.

 

The float prepares to shove off.

 After docking at Port Owen later in the afternoon the two PS2s are pulled off the carfloat and delivered to Port Owen Brick Company.

The coal hoppers for Con Ed are on their way for a short trip to the big power plant with the brakeman riding on the rear car.

 

The next day in Binghamton an EL locomotive from their nearby QD Yard grabs a cut of cars from the KP&W at CS Yard.  Included in the cut for the EL are a KP&W boxcar and LV NIRX # 41000 which are both empty for International Paper Co.  It also picks up LV boxcar #7120 which will be forwarded by the EL to Buffalo.

A little later, the Lehigh Valley Sayre Turn from Sayre, PA arrives at CS Yard to drop off a string of cars and pick up empty LV boxcar #66392 for assignment along with a string of six loaded cement cars from Tri Mount Cement for nearby Binghamton Precast & Supply.

 

Watch a busy morning of interchange traffic at the KP&W's CS Yard. 

 The EL later delivered the two boxcars to International Paper Co. 

 

After the interchanges with the EL and LV the KP&W will assemble its own local train to deliver two 86 foot boxcars to ACME Auto Parts.....

....a Swift Reefer loaded with frozen meat for Cavendish Foods...

 

...and EBRR gondola # 509823 and the Penn Central depressed well flat #766053 both empty for Amalgamated Container Co.

 

The CS Yard Local heads out to deliver these PCCM cars to their respective consignees

           The reefer of frozen food is set out at Cavendish...

...the two 86 foot cars go to ACME Auto Parts....

....and the EBRR gon and the PC depressed well flat go to ACCO.

 That's it for today!  We'll wrap up the action in this series tomorrow!

PCCM 112: Part 4 on the KPD

Welcome back!

We are continuing our 112th 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 own Kings Port Division.

Yesterday four trains dispatched from John's Terminal Yard with several cars for the Kings Port Division arrived at Selkirk while two cars from Neal's APRR were set out at West Mill. 

Selkirk is now preparing to dispatch train VW-1 which will make intermediate stops at Kings Port and West Mill to set out PCCM cars for the Kings Port Division.  The train is powered by a mix of GE and EMD locomotives to balance speed with traction.

VW-1 will stop at Kings Port to set out several cars for the KP&W's Williams Yard.  We'll see it arrive at the Ulster Ave grade crossing.

Incidentally, the repair job on the fallen telegraph pole has been completed!

 VW-1 arrives at Kings Port! 

The three unit consist pulls the cut to be set out for Williams Yard.

After making the set out at Kings Port the VW-1 receives permission to continue to West Mill where it will set out more PCCM cars.

The VW-1 sets out two covered hoppers for Empire Grain and two APRR RBLs for Zenith TV loaded with cabinets.

After the quick set out the VW-1 resumes its journey to Weehawken.

Its time for the West Mill Yard crew to sort cars into local trains to forward the PCCM cars to their respective consignees, starting with the Bloomberg Turn.   Today's Turn has cars for Zenith TV and Bell Pole.   Sales of console televisions must be up as an unusually high number of cars are heading to Zenith in this series!

Two empty NYC double door boxcars... 

 Two APPR RBLs loaded with TV cabinets from Empire Millwork

 

...and two empty  KP&W cars 

 The remaining car, P&LE empty gondola #40331 is for Bell Pole.

 

 A GP38-2 is usually assigned to the Bloomberg Turn.  Its idling by the crew lounge building waiting for its cars.

 The yard's switcher brings the cars up and tacks on a caboose.  We get a good look at the six cars for Zenith TV rolling by.

The Turn heads onto the Mountain Branch to the Catskills.  Shortly after it leaves town the MOW train returns with the cement car they set back on the tracks near Tri Mount Cement. While it can roll its unloading doors have been damaged so the car is being brought back to West Mill.

An hour later the Bloomberg Turn reaches the industrial park in the Catskills where it sets out the six cars for Zenith TV.

After working Zenith TV the Turn sets out the EBRR gon at Bell Pole.

 

The next job is to set out two covered hoppers at Empire Grain.  Despite its small size this short train is still referred to as  "The Grain Job" by the crew.

The Grain Job heads over to Empire Grain but is interrupted by the arrival of today's BiWi-3 transfer from Binghamton to Williams Yard in Kings Port.  The KP&W train sets out four non-PCCM hoppers to be forwarded by car float to Con Ed at Port Owen.

After the BiWi-3 clears the main the Grain Job finishes exchanging loads for empties and returns to the yard.

 The four hoppers that were set out by the BiWi-3 are then retrieved by switcher #8951 and brought into the yard for loading on the car float.

 

The car float will be loaded tomorrow with the four coal hoppers for Con Ed and the two PS2 hoppers loaded with lime for Port Owen Brick Company that are expected to arrive at West Mill tomorrow.

That's all for today!