Hello one last time!
We're concluding the KPD's involvement in this 110th PCCM series of virtual ops.
Yesterday a KP&W transfer from Williams Yard picked up cars at West Mill and continued to Mayfield Yard.
Now in Mayfield Yard the cars on the transfer have been blocked for a local to deliver LV boxcar #66392 and NYC boxcar #80755 to Amalgamated Container, and the IC boxcar #30130 along with an EL boxcar to Cavendish Foods. An LV train of empty hoppers leaves before the local is dispatched with RS3 #566 at the head end
The LV and NYC boxcars are spotted at ACCO
The IC and EL boxcars are set out at Cavendish Foods
That completes the work of the short Mayfield Local!
Yesterday we saw a couple of cars race through West Mill on a KP&W WiBi-4 transfer to Binghamton. The RI covered hopper among them is now sitting in the KP&W's yard in Binghamton while the RI boxcar #35062 was set out at IBM by an Erie Lackawanna local after interchanging with the KP&W in "Bingo".
Back at Williams Yard, the KP&W is dispatching a Steel Job hauling empty Evans coil coaches and a gondola of scrap wheels to KP Steel.
The cars will soon be set out at the steel plant.
And now for the Penn Central's final moves of the series. These five cars are assembled as today's Bloomberg Turn that will head up to the Catskill area industrial park. The short train includes two cars loaded with Drywell Ink for Catskill Mountain Press and...
....three cars for Quality Fabrications.
The Yard's switcher #8951 tacks on a caboose for the run.
GP38-2 #8150, the assigned power for today, couples up to its train, and backs the cars out of the yard before heading out on the Mountain Branch.
Later in the afternoon P&E #3638 and a former NYC Pacemaker boxcar, both loaded with Drywell Ink, are spotted at Catskill Mountain Press.
KP&W 30112 & 30115 along with GM&O boxcar # 21129 are set out at Quality Fabrications.
That's it for the Bloomberg Turn!
Almost done, but not quite!
West Mill still has a one car delivery to make. TP&W boxcar #627 will be sent over to Reynolds Beverage Distributors in Kings Port.
Meanwhile, over at Williams Yard, one of the KP&W's Geeps gets ready to take PC boxcar #77047 uphill to Hedberg Aggregates with a load of burlap sacks. A few empty open hoppers will complete today's Hedberg Run.
Both short trains are dispatched from their respective yards and later catch sight of each other in Kings Port!
The PC boxcar carrying burlap bags from Berk Enterprises is delivered to Hedberg Aggregates... (note the railfan campsite!)
...and the TP&W boxcar is set out at Gulf!
...which officially concludes the KPD's involvement is this fine series. Be sure to check out all of the action on John and Neal's layouts! Thanks for following along!