P.C.C.M. 60: 6th post Trains dispatched from West Mill

Hello all!

We last left West Mill Yard with cars sorted for assembly into trains that will deliver the virtual ops cars that came to the Kings Port Division for this series.

Starting off with the Penn Central,  GP9 #7085 gets the call to run a short Turn toward Kings Port.

Coupling up to three cars, the HRC car full of wine for Reynolds Beverage Distributors, The NYC Early Bird loaded with Steel Wool for Booms Ready Mix, and a non-virtual ops PC boxcar for the Team Track.

The short hop leaves West Mill...

...and arrives at Kings Port.

Whoo boy...the cars were not arranged properly.  The PC boxcar should have been at the front of the train so all three cars could have been pushed into the shared spur in one move.  Now it will take additional work to set out this car.  

The other two cars are set out at their respective consignees...

Booms Ready Mix...

...and Reynolds Beverage Distributors

The rookie brakeman gets an earful from his engineer about the misplaced PC car. (Shhhhh!  Its actually MY fault!)

The newbie routes the switch for the Geep to set out the car.

...and it is placed at the Team Track dock.

After the set-out the Geep needs to back up to access the mainline.  Normally the brakeman would ride along to reach the switch.  "Hoof it rookie" growls the engineer who didn't appreciate having to do extra moves.  

After the switch is thrown for the loco to take the main, the Geep pulls forward to the switch that will let it access the Gulf Facility.  More walking for the new guy who is beginning to contemplate a change in career. 

#7085 pulls a string of tankers

The brakeman realigns the switch for the main and then takes one more walk to reach the locomotive for the ride back to West Mill.

When the train ties up at West Mill the rookie doesn't spend any extra time with his engineer.

The next move is courtesy of the KP&W.  It will involve one of my favorite ops on the KPD...the KP&W's Coal to Carfloat job.   I've documented this operation in pics and video before so I won't go into great detail, but below we see a string of loaded hoppers from Mayfield Yard arriving at West Mill.

The coal train's RS3 locomotive passes the cars it will soon be taking back to Mayfield.

The coal hoppers are pushed into West Mill

 ...and the RS3 is cut to go after the cut of cars for Mayfield.

Pulling ahead prior to departure the West Mill Yard switcher tacks on the train's caboose.

After receiving permission to proceed to Mayfield the train takes the KP&W branch.  The two orange KP&W boxcars are the virtual ops cars on this train.

The train arrives at Mayfield Yard.  More evidence of its connection with the Lehigh Valley at Mayfield is visible here.

The two KP&W cars will be cut for a local to Peerless Appliance.

The cars are set out the first thing next morning.

That's it for today.  More ops tomorrow!