Here is the final installment of the current P.C.C.M. 60 series. Considering that I really didn't receive a large number of cars this go-around I seem to be needing a lot of posts to show the delivery of all cars! If you're up for another one, here we go!
We're back at West Mill watching the yard switcher pull cars for a KP&W Mountain Branch run to Bloomberg.
The PC car is loaded with printed labels for Van Winkle Canning from Berk Enterprises. The two blue B&M RBLs are loaded with University Millwork cabinets for console Zenith TVs to be made in Bloomberg.
Two KP&W grain hoppers make up the end of this five car train. You can see one of them peaking out from the GERN tunnel after the string of cars was pulled onto this ready track. The non-virtual ops grain cars are headed to Agway.
Power for the Bloomberg run is KP&W F7A # 160 and GP9 #769
The orange and blue power backs into its short train...
...pulls it forward from the ready track and then backs it onto the main by WM Tower...
Stops at WM tower for orders...
...and heads up the KP&W Mountain Branch
After negotiating the climb up the Catskills PC #229046 is set out at Van Winkle Canning.
The two KP&W grain hoppers are left at Bloomberg's Agway elevator. Bell Pole located across the track is seen loading P&LE gon #40331 with large poles for a future P.C.C.M. move.
B&M #109 and 110 are set out at Zenith TV across the tracks from Quality Fabrications. Remember, "Zenith...The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On!"
The last car forwarding of this series on the KPD involves these three NYC 50 ft. double door boxcars loaded with cable, wire harnesses, and other electrical components from Bruce Electrical Supply for IBM in Binghamton.
The string of empty coal hoppers below will travel westward on the KP&W along with the NYC boxcars. The loaded coal hoppers in the foreground were brought in by the KP&W yesterday are now on the car float ready for their trip to Port Owen's power plant.
The empties are pulled out...
B&O hoppers convey a sense of the connection the KP&W has with the Baltimore & Ohio at its Western Terminus in Salamanca, NY.
The hoppers are pushed on a ready track to join the three NYC boxcars.
About two hours later a mixed freight coming off the KP&W route from the west arrives with pooled KP&W and B&O F7As at the head end.
The train (East Extra 231) passes by the cars it will soon pick up for the trip west to Binghamton and beyond.
The Extra's KP&W caboose slowly rolls by the last hopper in the cut of cars. It will soon be tacked on to this car to designate the rear of a train heading West.
The train rolls beyond the entrance to West Mill Yard to shove its cars into the yard tracks.
Making the reverse shove...
Once the cars from East Extra 231 are set out at West Mill Yard the locomotives are freed so they can move in front of the cut of NYC boxcars and empty hoppers.
The train now identified as West Extra 110 heads out of West Mill toward Binghamton, NY.
After the train reaches Binghamton the NYC cars are removed from the train and sorted into a local to be spotted at IBM.
That concludes P.C.C.M. 60 on the Kings Port Division! Thanks for following along! Check out this action on the other layouts participating in this series!
John R. New York Central Train Layout
Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.
John B.'s Los Feliz and Northwestern
To: West Mill / Rock Ridge / West Egg / Elkhart
ReplyDeleteFrom: Terminal Yard
Acknowledge delivery of NYC 50' boxcars to IBM.
Acknowledge delivery of BM 109 & 110 to Zenith.
Acknowledge delivery of PC 229046 to Van Winkle Canning.
Terminal Yard out...
Put it in the Books!!! Great conclusion to a very enjoyable virtual op!! The KP&W was certainly busy this series with KP&W trains traipsing all over New York State to get the job done. Nice surprise appearance by the Bino desul!! west Mill once again proved itself as the rail hub of the Catskills!
TO: West Mill
ReplyDeleteFrom: Rock Ridge
Acknowledgement - Final deliveries of freight in and around West Mill.
Rock Ridge Yard Out!
Well done as always! The pics are enjoyable and are enhanced by the scenery of the railroad.
The KP&W does it again!