P.C.C.M. 83: Part 6 on the KPD

 Hi again!

This is my Kings Port Division's final installment of the latest virtual ops with John's New York Central Train Layout, and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. in Penn Central Car Movement #83!

Only three virtual ops cars remain to be forwarded from West Mill:  A Hoschton Railway Co. 40' boxcar loaded with C&P restaurant supplies for Battaglia Bros. Warehouse...

...the NYC double door 50 foot boxcar for Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors...

 

and BAR #5226, empty and ready to head back to Maine.

Things get busy at West Mill as the daily KP&W transfer arrives in the late morning and drops off several (non-player) cars.

Yard switcher #8951 gets to work sorting them into blocks...

...starting by assembling a cut for Half Moon Wholesale Lumber

This cut includes the "virtual ops" NYC double door boxcar.

Next, the Yard's SW9 places the black Hoschton car in a block that will become the next Kings Port Turn

And finally, the busy switcher tacks the BAR car to a string of B&M boxcars that will eventually be forwarded to Mechanicville for a trip to New England.

After the cars have been sorted into their blocks, the Kings Port Turn prepares to leave with the Hoschton car.

Watch the Kings Port Turn leave West Mill in the video below:

 The Kings Port Turn later reaches Kings Port ...

...and sets out the Hoschton car at Battaglia Bros. Warehouse.

Meanwhile back at West Mill,  after the Kings Port Turn departed,  Southbound local (Extra 5688) backs out of the yard to head to Half Moon Whole Sale Lumber Distributors with the NYC double door boxcar and three non-player cars.  Traffic to Half Moon is becoming more frequent and is starting to require short trains just for this business.  The Yard Crew is already starting to refer to it as the "Lumber Job".

WM Tower provides the Southbound Local's paper work before it pulls forward to head out of town.

After a fifteen mile trip the cars are dropped off at the lumber company.

The final car movement of the series is to send the BAR car on its way north.  Switcher #8951 pulls the cut of cars for Mechanicville and places it on a siding for the next train heading to Selkirk.

Watch #8951 set out the cut for WV-2 in the video below:

Penn Central train WV-2 from Weehawken to Selkirk, with a pair of six axle U Boats at the point, arrives a couple of hours later and picks up the cut for New England.

After coupling the New England cut to the rest of the train...

...WV-2 moves on to Selkirk!

After arriving at Selkirk the New England block with BAR #5226 is cut from the train and put on a transfer run to Mechanicville.  From here it will be added to a train to East Deerfield, MA for the next part of the BAR car's journey home.

Oh...for those of you that noticed caboose # 23155 had a wheel off the rails in the background of some of the videos but were polite enough not to say anything, the West Mill crew finally got around to re-railing it!   :)

And that concludes the Kings Port Division's part in P.C.C.M. 83!   Thanks for following along!