PCCM 104: Part 2 on the KPD

 Hello again!

This is the second installment of a short virtual ops between Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.  and my Kings Port Division.  So far, empty cars were dispatched from Rock Ridge Yard to the Penn Central's yard at West Mill.   They were then forwarded to the Kings Port & Western R.R, via transfers to Williams Yard and Mayfield Yard.

The transfer to Mayfield consisted of a string of empty hoppers that was then forwarded to the Lehigh Valley to be loaded with coal.   Here at Mayfield we can see an LV coal train returning with the now loaded hoppers that will be sent to Neal's RMO Electric Co..

The LV consist uncouples from the train and goes to service. 

It is then replaced by a KP&W RS3 that will take the hoppers to West Mill. 

 After the transfer to West Mill arrives the hoppers are backed into the yard. 

The transfer's power heads back to Mayfield caboose light.

Shifting our attention to  King Port we see a KP&W S12 hauling some cars from KP Steel to Williams Yard.   The PCCM cars at KP Steel are the two Penn Central corrugated gondolas loaded with steel coils for Neal's Shapeless Steel.

After the gons arrive at Williams Yard they are coupled onto a transfer run being assembled for the Penn Central's West Mill Yard. The transfer is dispatched to West Mill behind a KP&W GP9.

At West Mill the gons are added to the string of loaded coal hoppers that recently came from Mayfield.    The whole cut will be set out on a siding for the next VW-1 to pick up on its way to Weehawken.  

   SW9 #8951 works hard to place the cut on the siding.

 The cut of hoppers and gondolas waits for VW-1 to pick them up.

An hour later VW-1 arrives at West Mill headsed by an F7A-B-A!

VW-1 picks up the cut of cars and prepares to continue on its journey to Weehawken. The train stretches the length of West Mill.

After a crewman finishes walking the train and checking connections VW-1 heads out of West Mill.   PCCM cars on this train will be forwarded from Weehawken to Neal's Rock Ridge Yard.

That concludes the action for this series on the Kings Port Division!  Check in on Neal's blog to see what happens next after the cars arrive at Rock Ridge!

PCCM 104 A Call for Coal and More!

 Hello,

We're running a shorter two layout virtual op this time between Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.  and my Kings Port Division while John is temporarily away.   Even with just the two of us participating there is a lot of rail action to follow!

As always at the beginning of our Penn Central Car Movement series, things seem quiet at West Mill Yard... but not for long!

The quiet is broken by the sound of a Leslie S-3L airhorn at the south end of town as train WV-2 from Weehawken to Selkirk arrives. The WV-2 is headed by an F7A-B-A consist first dispatched from Rock Ridge Yard.

The train's caboose is cut so the block at the end of the train can be set out at West Mill.

The train pulls ahead so it can shove the cut for West Mill into the yard.

The cut of empty hoppers and gondolas is backed into the yard....

 After the cut for West Mill is set out WV-2 continues on to Selkirk.

Shortly after the dust clears from WV-2's departure a Bloomberg Turn returns to West Mill with cars from industries in the Catskills.  All of these non-player cars will soon be added to a transfer to the KP&W's Williams Yard.

After the Bloomberg Turn cars arrive West Mill's switcher #8951 gets to work assembling a transfer run to the KP&W's Williams Yard in Kings Port.  The two PC corrugated gondolas are the PCCM cars on this train.  They will be forwarded by the KP&W to KP Steel.

The transfer will be powered by  a pair of GP20s.

Connections are checked and the air is pumped up.   The train receives clearance to leave West Mill Yard and proceeds to Kings Port.

A Williams Yard crew works on assembling today's Steel Job for KP Steel which will include the two PC corrugated gons

The Steel Job will be powered by KP&S RS3 #566.

The Steel Job is dispatched to KP Steel where the gondolas will be loaded with steel coils for Shapeless Steel in Rock Ridge.

Returning out attention to the Penn Central yard at West Mill crews have prepared a transfer for the KP&W's Mayfield Yard.  These empty coal hoppers will be forwarded by the KP&W to the Lehigh Valley and its coal mine connections.

Mayfield Yard waits for the transfer from West Mill.  The Lehigh Valley regularly interchanges with the Kings Port & Western here.  A pair of LV locomotives is standing by to run another string of empty hoppers to coal country.

The transfer to Mayfield is dispatched from West Mill

That's it for today! Come back tomorrow as the hoppers and gons return loaded for Neal's Rock Ridge Yard.