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!