P.C.C.M. 75 KPD Installment #2

Hello!

This is the second installment of our landmark 75th virtual ops series from the Kings Port Division!

Freight cars are being gathered at West Mill Yard in anticipation of assembling and dispatching outgoing trains for John's New York Central Train Layout  and Neal's  Atlantic Pacific R.R..  The action includes West Mill Yard's SW9 #8951 performing a local pick up at Canton Box Co.   P&LE boxcar #35892 is loaded with packaging for Sunshine Biscuits

The SW9 also picks up two empty gons from Sal's Savage that will be forwarded to Bell Pole as an intra-layout move.

The switcher pulls the three cars back into the yard.

As the P&LE boxcar and the gons are dropped off at West Mill Yard, a returning Bloomberg Branch Run (BWM-4) brings TP&W boxcar #627 into the yard as an empty from Van Winkle Canning

The empty car is set out on a West Mill yard track.  It will eventually be forwarded to the Gulf Oil facility.

West Mill is starting to fill up.   Yardmaster Cappy Foster is making agitated calls from the tower to motivate his crews to get things moving!  He picked a bad day to stop smoking!

The following videos cover the action as an FP7/ GP38 consist get the call to haul the next train to Selkirk with cars for Terminal Yard on the N.Y.C.T.L.

The train (Extra #4348)  is seen on the high line over Kings Port while another Penn Central freight composed of empty hoppers rolls by on the lower level.  It then slows to stop at Kings Port.

The Extra stops at Kings Port to pick up two steel coil cars from the interchange with the Kings Port & Western.  The train is cut behind the string of eight cars bound for Hudson Coal.   The two steel coil cars from KP Steel are for Gervais Pipe and Fittings.

The train pulls ahead to back into the interchange track.

Crossing Ulster Ave and entering the interchange.

After coupling up, the train pulls the two covered coil coaches out of the interchange track...

...and backs them into the rest of the waiting cars.

Now a complete train for Selkirk,  Extra 4348 pumps up the air, checks all connections, and waits for the green indication that it can head north.

Watch Extra 4348 leave for Selkirk in the video below:

The manifest for Extra 4348 includes:

Two Southern bulkhead flat cars  for City Pallet from Half Moon Wholesale Lumber   (Lumber loads)

Six coal hoppers for Hudson Coal from the Port Owen Power Plant (Empty)

NYC & PRR 38 foot hoppers  from Corning Glass for Hudson Coal  (Empty)

Two coil cars for Gervais Pipe and Fitting from KP Steel  (coils)

LV NIRX  41000 for Berk Enterprises from International Paper  (adhesive backed paper)

PC 77047  For Neal’s Lumber & Hardware from Hedberg Aggregates  (bagged landscape rock)

KP&W 445052 and PC 883190 (PS-2)  for Lombo Concrete from Hedberg Aggregates (aggregate)

P&LE 35892  for Sunshine Biscuits from Canton Box  (cartons)

That's it for today.  Tomorrow's action will include the dispatch of a train southbound from West Mill to Weehawken where cars will be interchanged with the A.P.R.R. for a run to Rock Ridge Yard.