PCCM 90: Part 2 on the KPD

 Hello again!

We're continuing our 90th Penn Central Car Movement Series, the fun "virtual ops" between layouts that are actually over a 1000 miles apart.  This time its a two layout operation between John's New York Central Train Layout  and my own Kings Port Division.

Yesterday we observed a number of cars arrive at West Mill Yard from several trains, both from the Penn Central and the Kings Port & Western.  We left as SW9 #8951 began assembling the strings of cars into a train for John's Terminal Yard.

The train being assembled will be designated WKT-9, a run from West Mill that stops at Kings Port to pick up more cars before running through Selkirk on the way to Terminal Yard.  

While this work is being completed at West Mill there is action to follow in Kings Port in preparation for WKT-9's arrival there later this afternoon.

KP&W S-12 #34 out of Williams Yard has collected PC plug door boxcar #360150 from Blue Ribbon Flour.  The car is loaded with bagged flour for Hostess.

The car is placed on the interchange track with the Penn Central at Kings Port to wait for WKT-9.

Nearby KP Steel will be adding a string of four loaded clam shell coil coaches (two for Gervais Pipe and Fittings and two for Ford) along with a large girder beam for the NY DOT Region 10 project.   The girder load is protected by flat car buffers on either side.  These cars  will also be picked up by the WKT-9.  Watch the action as one of the steel mill's industrial switchers shoves cars out of their yard while a work train passes on the main line in the video below:

 Eight cars now sit on the interchange track waiting for WKT-9

Speaking of WKT-9, the train has been assembled at West Mill and is about to be coupled to its consist.  Watch GP38s #7675, #7692 and FP7 #4348 roll into the yard to pick up their train in the video below:

The hostler turns the consist over to today's crew.   GP38 #7675 idles as the yard crew checks all connections among the freight cars.

The air is pumped up and the train has been given clearance to leave the yard and enter the main for the run to Kings Port.  Watch WKT-9 leave West Mill in the video below.  Note NYC boxcar #164000 at the end of the train.  This car will be employed as an extra safety buffer when cars are picked up in Kings Port.

The train arrives in Kings Port an hour later.  Watch it roll past KP Tower before it picks up cars from the interchange below:

After WKT-9 stops at Kings Port the train is cut behind a string of empty hoppers so the cars to be picked up from the interchange can be better blocked for Terminal Yard.

 We'll stop here for today but come back tomorrow to follow the action as the pick up is made in Kings Port and the train heads north to roll through Selkirk on its way to Terminal Yard.