PCCM 96: Part 6 on the KPD

 Hello once again!

This is the final installment of my Kings Port Division's involvement in our 96th Penn Central Car Movement series or "virtual ops"with John's New York Central Train Layout and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.

You may recall that PC train VKW-5 from Selkirk to West Mill dropped off cars on the KP&W/PC interchange at Kings Port.  They were originally dispatched on train SK-5 from John's Terminal Yard.

The KP&W's Williams Yard has sent out a pair of SW9s to deliver cars to local industries and bring one back to the yard for further forwarding to Binghamton, NY.

Watch the switchers shove three gons of scrap from Gershow Recycling for KP Steel's Basic Oxygen Furnace in the video below:

After setting out the scrap gons the switchers get around the remaining two cars.

PC plug door boxcar #360158 is loaded with products from Superior Furniture for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.   Watch the switchers pull the car away from the Corning hopper (NAHX #90404) and run it down the industrial lead to the warehouse before returning to push the covered hopper loaded with West Hills silica sand back into Williams Yard.

The warehouse's loading dock is on a lower level beyond the ballpark.

Three hours after the Corning hopper was brought into Williams Yard we now see it tacked behind a pair of KP&W F7As that will power the next WiBi-4 transfer run to Binghamton NY.

Watch the WiBi leave Kings Port in the video below:

While this action is going on in Kings Port, the yard crew at West Mill has assembled a Yard Local to serve nearby Empire Grain and LaRoche Cycle.  The green NYC covered hopper is the virtual ops car for the grain facility.  The old NYC former Early Bird Service car is loaded with gears for LaRoche Cycle from Prestige Gear.

Two "nonplayer cars" will also be spotted at Empire Grain.

Watch the delivery for Empire Grain in the video below:

The hotshot WiBi-4 that left Kings Port is now arriving at West Mill.  The Yard Local holds at Empire Grain while it passes by.

After the WiBi clears town the Yard Local continues on its way to LaRoche Cycle with the Early Bird car.

After a quick runaround move the GP9 is able to shove the Early Bird up to the Team Track platform where a LaRoche Cycle truck will pick up the load of gears.  The use of a jade green replacement door on the brown boxcar is a pure Penn Central low cost maintenance move!

Returning now to West Mill Yard the last bit of work involves loading cars onto the car float for Port Owen.  A string of KP&W boxcars that was transferred here frm Mayfield is in the way of some loaded coal hoppers for Port Owen's Con Ed plant.

The hoppers for Con Ed and EL boxcar #73510  and NYC #47062  both loaded with bagged iron ore for Port Owen Brick Co. will be put on the float. 

The yard's SD9# 6922 will work the float as usual.

Watch the KP&W boxcars get set aside while the hoppers and EL and NYC cars are placed on the carfloat in the video below:

After the tugboat Robert H. leaves the float apron with the loaded barge it takes 45 minutes to dock at Port Owen.  After arriving the float is unloaded by SD9 #6925.

The six axle EMD unit sets out the two boxcars for Port Owen Brick and prepares to shove a cut of loaded hoppers to Con Ed.

While there are still some cars left in the yard; the "nonplayer" KP&W boxcars from Mayfield that will catch the next BiWi to Williams Yard....

...KP&W #644450 and 644455 empty from Quality Fabrications for Woodstock Hills Natural Soda, and two NYC double door boxcars empty from IBM for Zenith which are all being held at West Mill until space is available on the spurs for the respective businesses...

...I will not be showing these intra-layout moves...you'll just have to take my word for it that they will be done!  Cappy Foster will make sure of it!

Thanks for following along on this 96th fun series of virtual ops Penn Central Care Movements!

 

 

 

PCCM 96: Part 5 on the KPD

 Hello everyone!

As we continue our 96th 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 we're at West Mill waiting to see what train will be dispatched next.   

It looks like it will be a Bloomberg Turn for the industrial park in the Catskills.   APRR RBLs #60327 & 60358 are loaded with Empire Millwork console cabinets for Zenith TV and a former NYC Pacemaker boxcar is full of Moore & Co. burlap bags for Agway.

PC #299046 is loaded with printed labels for Van Winkle Canning from Berk Enterprises while PC #77047 is carrying City Pallets pallets for Woodstock Hills Natural Soda.

KP&W #30112 and #30115 are empty for Zenith TV.

A bay window NYC caboose is added by SW9# 8951.

Since the yard is so full its difficult for locomotives to run around this train.  SW9 #8951 pulls the cars out of the yard for the assigned power to couple up with their train on the mainline.

The cars sit on the main ready for the usual pair of GP20s assigned to the Bloomberg run.

Watch the two units leave the engine track and couple up to the train.

After the units couple on to the train and the air is pumped up, the Bloomberg Turn heads out on the branch up to the Catskills.  Watch it leave town while the PRR GP9 and Fingers O'Malley's transfer caboose return after completing the Cement Job set out.

The Turn makes its set outs at Van Winkle Canning and Woodstock Hills Natural Soda (partially seen on the right).

After that, the Turn heads to the Bloomberg Agway and sets out the old Pacemaker with its load of burlap bags.

The Turn proceeds to Zenith TV where it drops off four cars today.   A corner of Zenith's plant can just be seen on the left.

 

While the Bloomberg Turn finishes its set outs, work is being done at West Mill to get a cut ready to be picked up by the next KP&W Mayfield Transfer due to arrive within the hour. Five cars are heading to AME Auto Supply...

The brown NYC #80755 on the right is loaded with parts from Reliable Machine for Peerless Appliance, the Cargill hopper is going to Cavendish Foods and Spirits with a load of barley, and the empty PC depressed well flat #766053 is for Amalgamated Container Co.

Watch the Mayfield Transfer arrive at West Mill below:

The train backs into West Mill Yard and couples its caboose to the cut it will take back to Mayfield. Its two Geep consist then runs around the cut to shove it out of West Mill for the trip home.

After the train backs out of West Mill and is aligned on the main it heads toward Mayfield.

After reaching Mayfield Yard the cars are put on a local to serve:

Peerless Appliance.  NYC #87055 loaded with parts from Reliable Machine is spotted at Door #3.

ACME Auto Parts:

86 footers NYC #67086 and PRR #125291 are set out first...

...followed by 60 foot PC/TOC #350562, KP&W #50335, and NYC #53051.   These cars will be loaded for Ford.

Cavendish Foods and Spirits:

Cargill TDLX #7241 is full of barley to help create some of Cavenish's finest beverages. 

....and finally, Amalgamated Container (ACCO):

PC Depressed Well Flat #766053 is ready to load a large tank for West Chemical.

Well stop here for today but there is more action to follow tomorrow!

PCCM 96: Part 4 on the KPD

Welcome back to our 96th Penn Central Car Movement "virtual ops" series between John's New York Central Train Layout, Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division

We're beginning our "inbound" posts this weekend in which trains arrive on our layouts with cars to be forwarded to various consignees.  Last weekend John dispatched PC train SK-5 from his Terminal Yard for Selkirk.  Watch the long train with its FP7/F7B/FP7 consist arrive at Selkirk and meet an outgoing train for the Boston & Albany line in the video below:

After the train arrives two cuts are removed from the former SK-5.   One will be for the next VB-1 to Buffalo which now includes TPFX #5510 returing to British Columbia, the Dresser Magcobar car returning to Texas, and LV cars #7120 and 8247, both returning to Frontier Yard.  VB-1 is seen departing Selkirk below:

The second cut removed from SK-5 is the block of four TOFCs and the three B&M RBLs.   They have been added to train NY-20 from Selkirk to Mechanicville, NY.   The Swift reefer that arrived at Selkrk on WKV-4 (last week) has been included on this train as well.  All of the cars on NY-20 will be forwarded to New England by the B&M.   

Watch NY-20 leave Selkirk and arrive at Mechanicville while a D&H/KP&W pooled power TC-99 holds for clearance to run to Binghamton, NY.

Meanwhile the cars sent to the Kings Port Division on SK-5 from John's N.Y.C.T.L. have been rolling their way to Kings Port on train VKW-5 with the same FP7/F7B/FP7 consist at the head end.  

It should arrive at Kings Port soon.  While waiting at Ulster Ave for the train's arrival we're passing the time by observing a KP&W maintenance crew working on a crossing signal.

Watch VKW-5 arrive at Kings Port in the video below:

The train will be setting out five cars on the PC/KP&W interchange; three gons of scrap for KP Steel's Basic Oxygen Furnace, a Corning covered hopper that the KP&W will forward to Corning Glass, and PC #360158 loaded with Superior Furniture for Battaglia Bros. Warehouse.  A crewman makes the cut behind the Corning car.

Watch the set out in the video below:

 The cars have been left on the interchange for the KP&W to deal with later.

After setting out the cut for the KP&W VKW-5 continues on its way to West Mill.

Before it arrives at West Mill a crew has been assigned to a small Cement Job for Tri Mount Cement.  The six PS-2 hoppers that arrived from Binghamton in last week's installment are being forwarded as an intra-layout move.

A transfer caboose is tacked onto the rear of the string of hoppers. Conductor Fingers O'Malley will inhabit this steel box on wheels.

The job's power is GP9 #7085 which so far has escaped full application of the PC livery.  PRR fans are hopeful it will never happen!

The train backs out of the yard and holds on a siding to wait for the imminent arrival of VKW-5.

Watch VKW-5 arrive in the video below:

As soon as VKW-5 entered the yard the Cement Job receives clearance to leave.

That's it for today!  Come back tomorrow as more trains are dispatched to deliver cars to their consignees