P.C.C.M. 74 Offical post #2

Greetings all!

In the last installment Extra 4362  was dispatched to Terminal Yard on John's  New York Central Train Layout .    This time around we'll focus on cars to be forwarded to Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. 

Watch the cut of cars for the A.P.R.R. get pulled from West Mill Yard to be placed on a siding for easy pick up by a Weehawken- bound train in the video below.   Yard crews are multi-tasking as SD9 #6922 works the car float at the same time.

The cut for the A.P.R.R. is in place and waiting for a Selkirk to Weehawken train to make a midway stop at West Mill to pick them up. They will later be forwarded from Weehawekn to Rock Ridge Yard.

While the A.P.R.R. cut waits,  SD9 #6922 completes its work unloading the car float.

A string of empty hoppers from Port Owen's Power Plan is set aside for later pick up by the KP&W.

The last two cars on the float are these PS-2 covered hoppers that were seen heading to Port Owen Brick Company in an earlier post.  A quick turnaround finds them empty at West Mill as an intra-layout move.

They are set aside for a later PC local run from West Mill

About an hour later the expected Selkirk to Weehawken (Extra 1702)  run arrives.  This is not a symbol freight because of some of the cars included on this train such as bulkhead flats with log loads.  Its a long train with slow orders that includes cars for the A.P.R.R. that will be forwarded to Rock Ridge after arriving at Weehawken.  We didn't get to photograph Extra 1702's arrival but a string of coal hoppers for RMO Electric on the train is seen on the mainline behind the cut of cars set out for the A.P.R.R.

Extra 1702 is uncoupled behind the string of hoppers for RMO Electric and pulls forward in a move to pick up the cut from West Mill

Having changed tracks the hoppers back into the A.P.R.R. cut.

After coupling up,  Extra 1702's power pulls the A.P.R.R. cut...

...ending with two 38 foot KP&W hoppers.

The train then backs onto the main, assembling a complete Extra 1702 that will head to Weehawken.

After checking connections and pumping the air, Extra 1702 is cleared for Weehawken.  As the train leaves West Mill we observe the following cars on the cut for the A.P.R.R.:   NYC #47062 loaded with lumber from Half Moon Wholesale Lumber for Mike's Lumber.

50 Foot Hoschton Railway boxcar loaded with packaging materials for Freihoefers from the Canton Box Co..

Penn Central #160502 loaded with IBM business machines for Three Amigos Warehouse.

TPFX #5510 from N.Vancouver loaded with lumber for Mike's Lumber

KP&W hoppers #223 and 224 loaded with coal from the Lehigh Valley coal connection for RMO Electric.

That concludes the Kings Port Division's outbound moves for this series!    Stay tuned next week as traffic from John's and Neal's layouts will provide West Mill and Williams Yard with plenty to do!   While it looks busy in the HO scale Penn Central world, John noted in his blog that today is the 50th anniversary of the declaration of bankruptcy by the railroad, creating the largest business failure at that time.   The Penn Central continued to operate until the start of Conrail in 1976...but on the Kings Port Division the PC will always continue to be a going concern!