P.C.C.M. 81: Part 6

 Hi there!

Thanks for coming back to view another installment of our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.  , and my own Kings Port Division.  We are in the "inbound" segments of our Penn Central Car Movement Series as trains from John's and Neal's layouts arrived on mine to bring cars to be forwarded to industries on the KPD.

Now its time for the cars to be delivered to their respective consignees.

The Corning covered hopper is heading back to its namesake industry with a load of silica sand from West Hills Mining.   LV boxcar #8247 is returning empty to Delco in Flint, MI from IDEAL Auto Parts.  Both cars will be traveling to Binghamton on the KP&W's "WiBi" (Williams Yard to Binghamton) for the first part of their journey.  Yard switcher #8951 sets them out on a siding for the WiBi to pick up.

The switcher's crew then turns its attention to building "The Cement Job", a run to Tri Mount Cement with a combination of loaded coal hoppers for the kiln and several empty two bay covered hoppers.

The six coal hoppers came in yesterday on Extra #3007 from Hudson Coal on John's layout. 

The cement hoppers arrived from the KP&W's Mayfield Yard in an undocumented move, but one that will likely be seen in the future.

The power assigned to the Cement Job today are reliable GP7#5688 and GP9 #7085 tugging a spartan transfer caboose for the day trip out and back.

The pair of Geeps runs around the cut of cars for Tri Mount...

...while #8951 takes care of tacking the hack to the back.  Wow!  Railroad poetry!

While the Cement Job is getting ready to go, the WiBi arrives at West Mill with a loud horn blast echoing off Canton Box Co.'s brick walls.  Watch the action in the video below .

 The WiBi crew prepares to pick up the Corning and LV cars.

 

Follow this move in the video below:

 

By the way, you might have noticed that LV reefer #7120 that was set out at the Kings Port interchange in a previous installment is on this train to Binghamton.  It will eventually be forwarded to Frontier Yard in Buffalo.

Knowing that the WiBi will be leaving soon, the Cement Job's Crew is ready to back out of the yard to access the mainline.  Fireman Thor Torkelson is seen boarding the GP7.  Fishermen on the wooden platform on the river wall don't even seem to notice the action.

Watch the WiBi leave West Mill while the Cement Job wastes no time getting started on its run in the video below:

The Cement Job's Geeps shove the train past the switch accessing the main just beyond WM Tower.  As the lead engine passes underneath the billboard advertising cereal, Thor turns to his engineer and comments, "Did you know Grape Nuts aren't made out of either one?"  Stimulating conversation like this makes the run to Tri Mount all the more interesting!

The crew in PC #5688's cab don't have much time to ponder breakfast riddles though as they receive clearance to proceed to Tri Mount Cement.  Watch this train leave West Mill in the video below:

Arriving at Tri Mount Cement an hour later, the six loaded coal hoppers are set out....

...along with the 2 Bay cement hoppers.

That's it for today!  More railroading action to come!

 

P.C.C.M. 81: Part 5 on the KPD

 Hi folks!

Continuing our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout, Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division we're looking at "inbound" trains this weekend.   Two arrived on the KPD in the previous installment, one from John's layout and one from Neal's.  Today we'll follow the third and final train which was dispatched from John's N.Y.C.Y.L.  Its a unit coal train with cars for my Tri Mount Cement and Neal's RMO Electric.  

The Coal Train was dispatched from Terminal Yard as Extra #3007 as seen leaving John's layout.

The train with a lone GP40 on the point didn't have trouble hauling its coal cars on the route between Terminal Yard and Selkirk, but as it approaches Kings Port it might struggle climbing the grade up to Marion, the summit of the Kings Port Division.  With this in mind a helper set of two GP30s has been assigned to Kings Port.

Watch Extra #3007 arrive at Kings Port and be joined by the helper set "on the fly" in the video below:

 

Watch Extra #3007 roll through the Kings Port Division with some help from its friends!

 

Watch Extra #3007 arrive at West Mill.

The train will drop off six loaded hoppers here.  The helper set obligingly performs this task!

Watch the helpers pull the six cars and set them out in West Mill Yard in the video below:

 After the pair of GP30s sets out the cut of hoppers, it returns the caboose back to Extra #3007.

Their work completed, the helper set heads back to Kings Port for its next assignment.

This is a fun op and easily accomplished on the KPD!  Now that the helpers have left and Extra #3007 is complete again, it departs West Mill for Weehawken where the coal hoppers will be handed over to the A.P.R.R.    Watch the train leave in the video below:

  That's all for today! Come back tomorrow to see more action!

 

P.C.C.M. 81: Part 4 on the KPD

 Hello once again!

Welcome back to our virtual ops that we call Penn Central Car Movements!  This is a three layout venture between John's New York Central Train Layout, Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division.  Last weekend I featured the "outbound" installments of this 81st series in which trains left my layout to travel "virtually", thanks to photographing duplicate rolling stock, to  John's and Neal's.  This weekend I'll show trains arriving from their layouts to mine.

The first to arrive is Extra #7675 from Weehawken.  The cars on this train were originally dispatched on an APRR train from Rock Ridge.  The cars were interchanged with the PC in Weehawken for the trip "up the river".

Watch Extra #7675 arrive at West Mill in the video below:

The train pulls forward of the yard entrance and prepares to back into West Mill Yard.

 Watch Extra #7675 shove its cars into West Mill Yard in the video below:

We'll leave the West Mill Yard crew to break up that train.  Let's head over to Kings Port where the second of three trains coming to the KPD in this series is about to arrive.

The relative quiet is broken by a train horn blast as Extra #8150   appears from the tunnel under the Kings Port Saints ballpark.   Trains rattle the fans' seats during game times!

This mixed manifest train from Selkirk to West Mill will perform some set outs along the way.  Watch the train arrive in Kings Port in the video below:

 

The first job is to leave LV #7120  on the interchange with the Kings Port & Western R.R.   The car, sent from Jamaica Food, will be returned empty to Frontier Yard in Buffalo NY.  

 Watch the set out in the video below:

After dropping off LV #7120 the train leaves Kings Port:
 

LV #7120 waits on the interchange track for a Williams Yard switcher to take it to the yard.

Extra #8150 later stops at the Gulf facility to drop off two empty tankers returned from Terminal Yard.

After the tankers are set out, the train continues on its way to West Mill.  Before entering the yard it drops off  P&LE gondola #40081 loaded with scrap from Gershow for Sal's Salvage.  

After the gon is set out the train reconnects itself, neatly joining two Hoschton Railway cars that had been separated up to this point.  The HRC was the freelanced road of our late friend Engineer Ed.

 Watch the train pull into West Mill Yard with its remaining cars after its caboose was pulled in the video below:

 That's it for today!  Stay tuned tomorrow as the third train scheduled for the KPD arrives!

 

 

P.C.C.M. 81: Part 3 on the KPD

 Greetings virtual ops fans!

We're finishing up the "outbound" installments of this 81st Penn Central Car Movement series with John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my own Kings Port Division.

 West Mill Yard has filled up after several trains brought in cars to be forwarded to the N.Y.C.T.L. and the A.P.R.R.   

Yard Switcher SW9 #8951 handles the assembly of trains as usual. 

The switcher crew begins by creating a block that will eventually be interchanged with the L.I.R.R. at North Side Yard on John's layout.  EBRR #360279 is loaded with IBM business machines for Nassau Community College.

Its tacked onto a pair of PS2 covered hoppers loaded with crushed aggregates for the NYS DOT Region #10 highway project.

These in turn are coupled up to green covered hopper NYC #892010 full of grain for Ronzoni and a pair of Southern RR bulkhead flats loaded with lumber from Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors for Gotham Building Supply

The LIRR block completed, the switcher turns its attentions to a cut of cars heading to Neal's A.P.R.R., starting with Swift reefer #4244 loaded with frozen meat for C&P Restaurant Supply.

The Swift car is backed into KP&W boxcars #644450 and 644455 which are loaded with Woodstock Hills Natural Soda for ShopRite.

The KP&W cars are then shoved into NYC Hi Cube #173861 loaded with Peerless Appliances for Three Amigos Warehouse.

The Hi Cube is then coupled to a pair of PC Corrugated gons, #576104 and 576123, which are empty for Shapeless Steel, and Morton Salt car ACFX #26004 returning empty from Cavendish Foods to Morton Salt.

That concludes the cut of cars going to the A.P.R.R. this series.  Now returning our attention to other cars going to the N.Y.C.T.L., PC #229046 loaded with bulk cardboard from International Paper for Breck Enterprises....

...is coupled to former NYC Pacemaker #174508 loaded with new 55 gallon drums for Drywell Inks...

...which is then shoved into TP&W #627 loaded with Canton boxes for Schaefer Brewing and Rock Island #35062 loaded with Zenith TVs for All City Storage.

Red GM&O boxcar # 21129, full of barrels of Gulf lube oil for Terminal Yard's engine facility, is coupled to the RI car and then pushed into the LIRR block that was assembled earlier.

Here is the train for Selkirk, with cars that will eventually be forwarded to Terminal Yard, ready for a power assignment.

Watch the power for this train, an F7 A&B set still in PRR livery,  along with GP30 #2228, approach the train in the video below:

The First and Second Generation consist couples to the train, officially making it Extra #2228.

Watch Extra #2228 leave West Mill in the video below:

The Extra arrives at Kings Port an hour later and slows to pick up several cars left on the interchange tracks.

The train is cut behind GM&O #21129 to facilitate placement of more cars for Terminal Yard in front of the LIRR block headed by EBRR #360279 in the photo below:

The first move is to pick up the four TOFCs for Terminal Yard

Next is the pick up of the three B&M RBLs that are headed to University Milling

The cars are shoved into the rest of the train.

The last move is to pick up the steel coil coaches, the PC gon with coils, and the two cars set out from Blue Ribbon Flour. The locomotives leave their train to pick up these cars...

...and then couple them onto the rest of the train for Selkirk.

After air pressure is built up and couplers are checked, Extra #2228 is ready to depart for Selkirk with cars for the N.Y.C.T.L.

Watch the train leave Kings Port in the video below:

That's it for cars heading to John's layout!  Lets go back to West Mill and see how the cut for Neal's A.P.R.R. is faring.

Power assigned to this run is a GP9/GP7 consist.  Watch as it passes the train to get to its head end.

Watch, as after a caboose is tacked onto the rear of this cut by SW9 #8951, the train backs out of the yard for the run to Weehawken.

The two Geeps pause at WM Tower for orders while a recently procured Caterpillar works Sal's Salvage in the foreground.

Watch the train depart for Weehawken in the video below:

A final look at the cars heading for Neal's A.P.R.R.

That wraps up the outbound posts of this series. Stay tuned next weekend when inbound trains from the A.P.R.R. and N.Y.C.T.L. arrive at West Mill with cars to forward to local industries!  Virtual ops model railroading at its finest between three layouts!