P.C.C.M. 76: Part 2 on the KPD

Greetings all!

Thanks for following our 76th Penn Central Car Movement (P.C.C.M. ) series of "virtual ops"!

Cars to be forwarded to John's New York Central Train Layout  and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. were gathered at West Mill Yard yesterday and are now ready to be blocked into trains.  

West Mill's SW9 #8951, busy as always, is seen assembling a short train for Weehawken with cars that will be forwarded to Neal's A.P.R.R.   Cars in this train include KP&W boxcars 30112 and 30115 loaded with Zenith TVs for Three Amigos Warehouse...

....KP&W ribbed boxcars 644450 and 644455, both loaded with kitchen appliances from Peerless Appliance for Three Amigos Warehouse....

...and three Penn Central RBLs loaded with container board from International Paper for Tropicana

Power for the train to Weehawken is a GP9/GP7 lashup burbling away at the North end of the yard.

 The crew boards their locomotives

 The SW9 grabs a caboose and prepares to tack it to the end of the cut of cars for Weehawken.  As usual, Conductor "Fingers" O'Malley is complaining to the hapless crewman about how much he hates transfer cabooses!  We get it already!

The cut is then shoved toward the waiting Geeps. 

Watch the train, now designated as Extra 7085, back out of West Mill and leave town for Weehawken.

After Extra #7085 clears the yard, SW9 #8951 gets to work on the train headed to Terminal Yard on John's N.Y.C.T.L.  It adds LV boxcar #8247 to a string of auto parts cars for Ford Motor Co.  The LV car carries Delco batteries for Ford.

After coupling the LV car to the string, it shoves the auto parts cars back into two gulf tankers loaded with fuel for Ford.  The big auto manufacturing plant in Bedford Park will be receiving several cars this time around!

  Immediately behind the tankers is PC #160502 loaded with various commodities for storage in All City Storage from Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.

 One yard track is full of cars for Terminal Yard.  Watch the switcher start building the second cut in the video below, starting with cars that will be transferred to the Long Island Railroad.

These LIRR bound cars include two gons of poles from Bell Pole for LILCO and EL boxcar #73510 loaded with Port Owen bricks for Gotham Builders.

Watch a second yard move assembling a cut of cars for various N.Y.C.T.L. industries.

These cars include PC #360158 loaded with Zenith TVs for Superior Furniture, NYC Pacemaker #174508 loaded with sewing machine and wire twister parts from Quality Fabrications for Moore & Co...

...NH  #36116 loaded with canned food from Van Winkle Canning for Terminal Warehouse and Cold Storage, A.P.R.R. #9416 empty for Hudson Coal, TP&W #627 loaded with drums of cutting oil for Walsh Steel Wool, and NYC Hi Cube # 173861 loaded with "tall neck" bottles from Corning Glass for Heileman Beer.

The last bit of of yard work moves two cars for Drywell Ink.

 NYC #80755 and LV #66392 are both loaded with new 55 gallons drums for Drywell Ink from Amalgamated Container.

Power for the train to Selkirk (with cars that will be forwarded to Terminal Yard) leaves the engine service area.   The consist includes GP40 #3003, GP30 #2228 and SD35 #6017

Watch the consist leave the engine service area in the video below.

The locomotives pause at WM Tower for orders.

...and then proceed into West Mill Yard to pick up their train, now known as Extra #3003 to Selkirk

Watch the train reach Kings Port and continue North to Selkirk in the video below.

As an Epilogue, here are "intra-layout" moves in this series on the KPD.  Four TOFCs head to New England on the B&M.

...and P&E 3638 is set out on the interchange to be forwarded to Port Owen Brick Co.

That concludes the "outbound posts from the KPD in this series.  Stay tuned next weekend as trains bring cars from John and Neal's layouts to be delivered to industries on the Kings Port Division!