P.C.C.M. 77: Part 7 on the KPD

 Hello again virtual ops fans!

There has been a lot of enjoyable work to do in this 77th virtual ops series as the Penn Central and Kings Port & Western forward cars from John's New York Central Train Layout  and Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR

  Today we're at West Mill as the Bloomberg Turn (WMB-1) prepares to depart.  The crew boards its GP9/GP7 consist.

 

SW9 #8951 places a caboose at the tail end with the always pleasant Fingers O'Malley in the transfer hack grousing about something! 

 

 

Watch as the train backs out of West Mill Yard in the video below:

Now on the main, the train gets clearance to proceed up the Catskills to Bloomberg

 An hour later WMB-1 reaches the Bloomberg Industrial Park where it will drop off cars at a few locations.   PC #229046 and IC #30130 are set out at VanWinkle Canning.  The PC car is loaded with printed labels from Berk enterprises while the IC car is empty.

PC #77047 is carrying pallets from City Pallet for Woodstock Hills Natural Soda.

...and Rock Island #35062 is bringing drums of Drywell Ink for the Catskill Mt. Press.

 Moving on to the outskirts of town, the Turn delivers NYC former Pacemaker #174508 to Agway with a load of burlap bags for feed.

Four KP&W boxcars are then set out at Quality Fabrications, an unusually large move at this industry.  Two (644450 and 644455) are loaded with bulk hardware from American Hardware in Rock Ridge.  The other two (30112 and 30115) are empty to load for Ford

 Former NYC Early Bird #90718 will be set out at nearby REVCO to be loaded with trendy kitchen gadgets ("turnip twaddlers").  This intra-layout move is the last bit of work for the Turn.

While the Bloomberg Turn finishes up lets go to the KP&W's Williams Yard to watch S12 #34 leave the yard to pick up the NYC covered hopper the PC's Kings Port Turn left there yesterday.   

#34 leaves with LV (NIRX) #41000 loaded with printed cartons for Blue Ribbon from Berk enterprises and PC #360158 full of Superior Furniture's products for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.  The warehouse is just a little farther down the industrial lead from Blue Ribbon making this an easy set out.  Williams Yard crews call this particular run to local industries the "Cake Walk" both because it serves Blue Ribbon Flour and because its an easy move.

The short train heads to the interchange.

The car for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse is cut and strategically placed to be shoved down the industrial lead.

Then the NYC covered hopper loaded with wheat flour from Cargill in Rock Ridge is picked up by #34.

#34 backs the cars into PC #360158 for an easy shove down the lead to the flour mill and warehouse...Cake Walk!

That concludes the local job out of Williams Yard.

That's enough for today...but before we go, it is worth mentioning as an epilogue to yesterday's run-through of the KP&W WiBi, that the train arrived at Binghamton, its cars were sorted into local trains, and the two PS-2 covered hoppers of silica sand were delivered to the Corning Glass Company...

..and PC #160502 with its load from Rock Ridge's American Hardware was set out at IBM.

 

There is still one more installment coming from the KPD tomorrow.  We'll catch the last train of the series as it transfers cars to Mayfield Yard to be forwarded to their respective consignees.  Thanks for following along!