PCCM #85: Part 4 on the KPD

 Hello everyone and welcome back!

Assuming that you have been following this 85th "virtual op" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my own Kings Port Division you know that we dispatched trains to each other's layouts last weekend.  Now its time to focus on those trains as they arrive with cars to be forward to various consignees.

John dispatched train SK-5 from Terminal Yard and after it turned the corner at Selkirk is heading south toward King Port and West Mill on my layout.   

Things have been quiet for a little while in Kings Port this afternoon but soon the blast of a GP38-2 horn alerts us that SK-5 is coming into town!

Watch the train arrive and then stop to drop off cars in the video below:

SK-5 will be dropping off four empty steel coil coaches for KP Steel and two cars for Williams Yard on the interchange track with the Kings Port & Western here.   The cars are cut in front of a gon loaded with scrap metal from Gershow Recycling.

Watch the set out in the video below:

 SK-5's crew leaves the cars on either side of Ulster Ave. crossing.

Watch the train's power come out of the interchange, couple up with the remaining cars and continue to West Mill in the video below:

The train works its way to West Mill

 SK-5 arrives at West Mill, passing by Sal's Salvage as it approaches the yard.

As the train enters West Mill Yard a pair of gondolas loaded with raw scrap passes two gons at Sal's loaded with shredded scrap.  It won't be long before the pairs of gons trade places as the KP&W and Michigan Central RR gons are scheduled to be set out at Sal's Salvage.

While SK-5 rolls into West Mill Yard from the north, Penn Central train WV-1 from Weehawken arrives from the south end of town on its way to Selkirk.  WV-1 will drop off a number of cars forwarded from the APRR.  The two trains' consists pass each other in opposite directions below.

VW-1 stretches the length of West Mil Yard as it slows to a stop.

The cut from the APRR ends with PC Hi Cube #272747 loaded with American Hardware (Rock Ridge) products for Peerless Appliance.

 The APRR cut pulls ahead while the rest of SK-5 rolls into the yard.

 

Watch SK-5 and WV-1 roll into West Mill Yard in the video below.

Meanwhile back at Kings Port the two sets of cars left on the interchange are pulled in opposite directions as a KP&W S-12 brings two cars into Williams Yard and an industrial switcher claims the four coil coaches.

Watch the action in the video below:

After the interchange cars are pulled into Williams Yard LV #66392 loaded with batteries from Presto Lite (Allentown, PA) for Irwin Marine in Lakeport NH, which was seen last week passing through West Mill on the BiWi, and the Swift reefer (being returned empty to Swift from Ralph's Grocery Warehouse) are included on Extra 1701 to Springfield, MA powered by a B&M GP9 and F7A.

PC plug door boxcar #160502 seen below being moved by a Williams Yard switcher, is placed on the next Williams Yard-to- Binghamton Transfer (the WiBi).   The car is loaded with bulk hardware from American Hardware (NYCTL) for IBM.

The train powered by a KP&W GP9-F7B-GP9 consist leaves Williams Yard...

....with PC 160502 right beyond the locomotives.

Follow the car on the WiBi as it runs through West Mill on its way to Binghamton in the video below:

PC #160502 is spotted at IBM in Binghamton a day later.

That's it for today.  Stay tuned for more tomorrow as there is a lot more car forwarding to be done!