PCCM 101 Epilogue

Hello,

I'm wrapping up our 101st Penn Central Car Movements virtual ops series with this Epilogue post.  Anyone remember the old FBI TV show with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. that always featured an Epilogue? 

After six installments of car forwarding West Mill Yard is empty...

...well...ALMOST!!  TP&W boxcar #627 and a former NYC Early Bird boxcar, both loaded with Walsh's Steel Wool, are still awaiting forwarding to their consignee, Booms Ready Mix in Kings Port.

There is also the matter of the Swift reefer that was pulled off Penn Central's train WV-2 at West Mill because of a hot journal box.

 

Watch the RSD12 assigned to a short Kings Port Turn roll down the length of the yard to couple up to the two cars and then head out with its caboose.   The Kings Port Turn is quickly followed by Yard Switcher #8951 pulling the Swift reefer to set it out on a siding for the next WV-2 transfer from Weehawken to Sekirk.

The Kings Port Turn arrives at Kings Port where it will drop the two cars off at Booms Ready Mix which is located just to the left of Reynolds Beverage distributors.

The move will be complicated by a P&LE boxcar waiting to be loaded at Reynolds that was set out earlier by a KP&W local out of Williams Yard.  Booms and Reynolds share a spur so the P&LE car will need to be pulled and replaced after the two cars for Booms are set out.

Watch the multiple moves required to set out the two cars while a couple of KP&W employees parked in their company truck at Dave's Diner enjoy the amount of effort being taken by their Penn Central counter parts.

That finally concludes the PCCM action on the Kings Port Division for this 101st series!

Confession time!:   The number of trains dispatched and cars forwarded in our PCCMs tends to lead me to commit at least one error per series despite my best efforts to keep things organized.  I need my own Yard Clerk!  Today's Epilogue corrects two errors this time.

#1  The TP&W and NYC Early Bird cars just delivered to Booms Ready Mix should have been kept at the KP&W's Williams Yard instead of being transferred to West Mill.  They would have been included on the Yard Local that delivered the P&LE car to Reynolds Beverage Distributors seen below.  This would have taken one easy move.  No wonder the KP&W guys in their truck were chuckling while watching the Penn Central crew on the Kings Port Turn work so hard to set out the cars!

#2 The Swift reefer was supposed to continue on WV-2 to Selkirk instead of being cut off at West Mill.  The hot journal box made a good justification (cover story!) for mistakenly removing the car from the train.  Fortunately it was empty so no meat spoiled while sitting for days at West Mill! 

 

Is this anyway to run a railroad?!  It was sometimes the Penn Central way so I feel like my errors have a certain prototypical validity!  :)

Thanks for following along this series!

PCCM 101 Part 6 on the KPD

 Hello again!

We are continuing the "inbound" portions of our 101st virtual ops series as John's New York Central Train Layout,  Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division exchange cars on each others' layouts.

Three trains were dispatched from West Mill in yesterday's installment. The last train of this series to leave West Mill today is a Penn Central Transfer to the KP&W's Mayfield Yard.   Cars are really being scattered to the four winds from West Mill in this series!   

The transfer to Mayfield includes KP&W short hoppers #233 and #234 sent empty from Neal's RMO electric CO. to be loaded at a coal mine served by the Lehigh Valley, a KP&W boxcar from American Hardware to ACCO...

Penn Central gondola #288673 and depressed well flatcar #766053 also for Amalgamated Container Co....

...and KP&W boxcars #644450 & 644455 which are being forwarded empty to Peerless Appliance.

The yard switcher shoves a caboose for the transfer.

Watch the transfer get its caboose and power before leaving West Mill and meeting a work train coming from Weehawken.

 

Lets switch over to follow action at the KP&W's Williams Yard.

The tail end of a Williams Yard Transfer ready to go to Mayfield Yard can be seen in front of the railroad's large headquarters building

The Transfer's head end is seen below with the three 60 foot auto parts cars that will eventually be forwarded to ACME Auto Parts.   The transfer caboose in front of it is on a Yard Local that will serve Kings Port Industries like Battaglia Brother's Warehouse and Reynolds Beverage Distributors.  Both will be dispatched soon.

The gons loaded with scrap will be put on a Steel Job for KP Steel.

Before the transfer to Mayfield and the Yard Local are dispatched the first move at Williams Yard will to place another load of pipes for the Hudson Valley Agricultural COOP by the truck loading platform.

Watch the combined action as the Empire Belt gon #509823 loaded with pipe is set out, GP9 #742 couples up to the Yard Local and leaves, and the transfer run to Mayfield departs pulled by a rumbling RS3 #566.

As the Transfer Run heads to Mayfield we'll follow the Yard Local setting out P&LE boxcar #35892 at Reynolds Beverage Distributors with products from Star Liquor,

 The remaining three cars are for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse... 

...which is accessed by an industrial spur on the lower level past Blue Ribbon Flour.

The two NYC double door boxcars are loaded with Ideal Toys. The PC plug door boxcar #160502 is full of materials to store from Three Amigos Warehouse on Neal's layout.  The caboose is set aside and the cars are shoved toward the warehouse.

The Geep and caboose return to Williams Yard after the set outs.

The last of the three trains leaving Williams Yard is the Steel Job with its scrap gons for KP Steel seen below awaiting their delivery.   

Watch the Steel Job with three green Penn Central virtual ops gons and two nonplayer cars head out of Williams Yard behind S12 #34 and arrive later at KP Steel.

 

Let's head over to Mayfield where the KP&W transfer from Williams Yard we saw dispatched above is arriving closely followed by the Penn Central Transfer that was dispatched from West Mill at the beginning of this installment

The Mayfield crew pulled the two 38 foot KP&W hoppers and added them to a block to be interchanged with the Lehigh Valley.   

The other cars have been assembled as the Mayfield Industrial Job serving ACME Auto Parts, Peerless Appliance, and Amalgamated Container Co. (ACOC).

The KP&W's chronic power shortage leads the Mayfield engine yard to provide a surprising aging C Liner/ F7A lashup for this run.  Watch it couple to the train and take it out of the yard in the video below.

The Mayfield Industrial Job sets out cars at Peerless Appliance...

Amalgamated Container Co...

..and ACME Auto Parts.

That wraps up the action for today!  I'll post an Epilogue installment tomorrow to follow the delivery of the remaining three PCCM cars at West Mill.

 

PCCM 101: Part 5 on the KPD

 Hello again!

We are continuing the "inbound" portions of our 101st virtual ops series as John's New York Central Train Layout,  Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division exchange cars on each others' layouts.

All incoming trains for this series from the APRR and the N.Y.C.T.L. have arrived on the Kings Port Division.  Now its time to forward those cars to their respective consignees.

Crews at West Mill are busy assembling a transfer run to the KP&W's Williams Yard while also putting together a cut of cars for the next Cement Job to Tri Mount Cement.

The Transfer to Williams Yard will include virtual ops cars EBBR #509823 carrying pipe for HVAC,  two PC gon loads of scrap for KP Steel, and PC # 160502 (Seen earlier two photos above) loaded with cutting machines from Reliable Machine for International Paper Co.

Once fully assembled the short transfer leaves West Mill behind Penn Central GP7 #5688.

Meanwhile over at Williams Yard, their KP&W counter parts are putting together the next WiBi-4 (Williams Yard to Binghamton transfer).  Virtual ops cars on this run include LV #66392 and LV NIRX #41000 both returning empty to the Lehigh Valley at "Bingo" and EBRR #360279 carrying cutting machines for International Paper from Reliable Machine.

Local train watchers the Kings Port Railfan Society learned about an upcoming meet between the Penn Central transfer from West Mill and the KP&W WiBi-4.  They have a friend in KP Tower who told them that Ulster Ave. is the likely location for the meet.

The guys are gratified to hear that the KP&W will be utilizing a pair of leased B&O F7As on the next WiBi.  The KP&W interchanges with the B&O at Binghamton.  These units came from Binghamton powering a BiWi-3 to Williams Yard in some non-PCCM action. The WiBi is dispatched from Williams Yard and meets the Penn Central's Williams Yard Transfer at Ulster Ave.

The Penn Central Transfer from West Mill arrives at Williams Yard.

Continuing its journey to Binghamton the WiBi passes West Mill as SD9 #6922 as works the car float, loading virtual ops cars EL #73510 and NYC #47062 both loaded with bagged iron ore from T&R Gravel for Port Owen Brick Co.  Non-player flats of electrical equipment for the Con Ed Power Plant join them on the barge.

Later, after arriving at Binghamton and being placed on a local, EBRR #360279 is set out at International Paper Co.

Returning our attention back to West Mill, the carfloat is ready to cast off for Port Owen.

The Cement Job is now ready to go with a string of covered hoppers for Tri Mount Cement forwarded from Neal's APRR....

...powered by GP9  #7085 in its pre-merger scheme.

The Engineer picks up the orders from WM Tower...

 and the train is dispatched from West Mill.

 The cement hoppers are later set out at Tri Mount Cement

After the Cement Job left town Switcher #8951 focused on assembling a Bloomberg Turn that will serve industries in the Catskills.

The switcher pulls the string of six cars heading up the mountain.  West Mill Yard only dispatches the Bloomberg Turn if there are at least five cars for the train.  The two covered hoppers for Agway are non-player cars to fill in the switchlist.  Watch the action as GP38-2 #8510 couples to the train and takes it on the branch line to Bloomberg while power used for the Williams Yard Transfer returns to West Mill.

Bloomberg area set outs include KP&W boxcars  #30112 and 30115 empty at Zenith TV.

...an old NYC Pacemaker empty to Quality Fabrications...

....and P&LE gondola #40331 empty to Bell Pole.  The two non-player covered hoppers were also set out at Agway across the tracks

That's it for today!