PCCM 111: Part 5 on the KPD

 

Hello again!

This is the fifth installment of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.    All the cars scheduled to arrive on the Kings Port Division from John's and Neal's layouts for this series are now either at West Mill or the KP&W's Williams Yard.   Its time to get those cars to their respective customers!

 We're going to spend the day at West Mill Yard where a Bloomberg Turn has been assembled to serve the industrial park in the Catskill Mountain community.

The HRC, NH, GT, and IC boxcars are all going to Van Winkle Canning.   The NH # 36116 is carrying new cans from American Can while the GT and IC cars are loaded with packaged food intended for British tastes from Cavendish Foods.  The HRC car is loaded with perishable foods from C&P Restaurant Supply.

GP38-2 #8150 is often assigned to the Bloomberg Turn.  Its crew is seen boarding below.

While checking the train's air hose connections a couple of crewmen pause to reflect on the late Engineer Ed who was a generous and enjoyable part of our virtual ops years ago with his freelanced Hoschton Railway Company.  The HRC car is a nice legacy.

The yard switcher tacks on the usual transfer caboose for this run.   Conductor Fingers O'Malley is on the back porch, as usual, also complaining...as usual!

The Bloomberg Turn backs out of West Mill Yard and takes the branch up to the Catskills.

 About two hours later the Turn has dropped off the four cars at Van Winkle Canning.  The HRC RBL with perishables was prioritized for the loading dock...

...while the others were constructively placed for unloading later.

The Turn then moved on to Quality Fabrications to drop off an empty aging former Pacemaker boxcar.   It then finished its work by....

 ..,setting out empty P&E #3638 at REVCO, 

Returning to West Mill Yard we see SD9 #6922 getting ready to work the car float.

Two boxcars, KP&W #15638 loaded with steel banding from Shapeless Steel and EL #73510 loaded with bagged iron ore from T&R Gravel are heading across the river to the Port Owen Brick Co.

They will travel with a string of coal hoppers being forwarded to the Con Ed power plant at Port Owen.

The car float has been carefully loaded and waits to shove off.

It takes 45 minutes to reach and tie up to Port Owen's car float apron.   SD9 #6925 pulls the cars off of the float

 The two PCCM cars for Port Owen Brick Co. are set out by the SD9.

The last train of the day from West Mill is a short Southbound Local that will be serving Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors.  

The PCCM car on this train is the new PTTX bulkhead flatcar #91313 loaded with lumber from Astoria Lumber.  This very nice car was provided by John!

The Southbound Local is powered by a rumbling RSD12 #6865.  The six axle Alco was originally PRR #8665 before the merger.  After backing out of the yard it hits the horn while leading the short train into the south tunnel toward Half Moon.

The four bulkhead flatcars are set out at Half Moon Wholesale Lumber

 The last work before the end of the shift is to set out four cars for the KP&W's WiB-4 to pick up on its way from Kings Port to Binghamton, the lines western terminus.

 The two APRR hoppers will be forwarded by the KP&W to the Lehigh Valley Coal Connection.

PC #360063 carries food packaging materials for Cavendish Foods from C&P Restaurant Supply while the Corning covered hoppers is returning to its home company loaded with silica sand from Pennsylvania Glass Sand in Millville

The four cars are set out on a siding for easy pick up by the KP&W transfer to Binghamton.

That concludes today's action!   Tomorrow the KP&W will take center stage and finish forwarding the remaining PCCM cars on my layout to their consignees!

 

PCCM 111: Part 4 on the KPD

Welcome back!

This is the fourth installment of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.  This weekend's posts feature "inbound" moves as trains dispatched from the N.Y.C.T.L. and the APRR arrive on the Kings Port Division with cars to be forwarded to various consignees.

We're at Selkirk waiting for Penn Central train SK-5 from Terminal Yard.

The train from John's Terminal Yard arrives closely followed by a freight coming off the old Boston & Albany line.

Three empty B&M RBLs are cut from SK-5 and will later be put on a transfer to Mechanicville for eventual forwarding to Merrimack, NH.   

The NH boxcar #3116 and Triangle Pacific boxcar TTPFX #5510 along with the three 60 foot auto parts cars were added to several cars that came in from Terminal Yard to create train VW-1.    VW-1 and NY-20, the transfer to Mechanicville, leave Selkirk together.   NY-20 is seen arriving later at Mechanicville just when D&H freight PB-99 is leaving for Binghamton, NY.

 An hour later VW-1 arrives at Kings Port to set out some cars.

 The KP&W's Williams Yard will receive a number of cars today.

 The first string being backed into Williams Yard by VW-1's three unit consist includes the old NYC Early Bird boxcar carrying Walsh Steel Wool for Booms Cement, EBRR #360279 loaded with a cutting machine for IBM, two NYC double door boxcars with wires and cable harnesses from B.E.E. to IBM...

 APRR #9416 loaded with ballast for Williams Yard and a depressed center flat car with an EMD prime mover for the Williams Yard engine facility...

 P&LE gondola #40331 loaded with scrap from Gershow for KP Steel, and LV NIRX #41000 returning empty to Binghamton....

 ...three empty 60 foot auto parts cars for ACME Auto Parts...

 ....and TPFX #5510 loaded with lumber supplies for nearby Battaglia Brothers Warehouse

After setting out cars for Williams Yard VW-1 prepares to continue to West Mill.   

Receiving permission to proceed VW-1 hauls out of town.

About a half hour later VW-1 arrives at West Mill...

...and sets out three cars, EL boxcar # 73510 loaded with bagged T&R Gravel iron ore for Port Owen Brick Co., bulkhead flat PTTX #91313 loaded with lumber for Half Moon Wholesale Lumber Distributors, and NH boxcar #36116 carrying new cans from American Can for Van Winkle Canning. 

After the set out VW-1 runs to Weehawken.

Yard switcher #8951 is assigned to bring the short cut left by VW-1 into the yard.

All is quiet at West Mill for a couple of hours until northbound Weehawken to Selkirk transfer WV-2 arrives with cars from Nea'ls APRR.

After setting out cars the WV-2 continues on its way to Selkirk.

We get a good look at the cut of cars from Rock Ridge Yard as switcher #8951 brings them into the yard.

 

All of the cars coming in from the N.Y.C.T.L. and APRR have arrived at West Mill and Williams Yard, setting the stage for the dispatch of local trains to deliver them to their respective consignees.  Come back tomorrow to catch the action!

PCCM 111: Part 3 on the KPD

Hello again,

This is the third installment of the "outbound" portion of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.

Yesterday Penn Central train WV-2 was seen departing West Mill heading toward Selkirk.   We're at Selkirk Yard today waiting for WV-2 to arrive.

While we're waiting, we see an SW7 pulling a few cars that will be added to the manifest being brought in by WV-2.  The BAR #5226 boxcar is loaded with blueberries from Circle B Farms in Maine for Empire Produce.   It arrived at Selkirk yesterday on a transfer from Mechanicville, NY.  

LV #7120 is loaded with food stuffs from Tarentino Foods in Buffalo.  LV #8247 is full of car batteries from Delco in Michigan for the Ford plant in Bedford Park.  Both of these cars arrived today on train MC-4 from Frontier Yard.

 Rock Island #35062  carries Grocery Products from Ralphs Grocery Warehouse Midwest/Davenport, IA for Ralph's Grocery Warehouse in Empire City.  This car arrived today on train NY-4 from Chicago.

 

TPFX #5510 loaded with lumber products from British Columbia for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse in Kings Port also arrived today on MC-4 from Buffalo.  It will be placed on the next VW-1 southbound.

 

WV-2 arrives at Selkirk.  The long train includes an empty Swift reefer being returned to the Swift Co. by ShopRite in Rock Ridge.  It will be cut from the train and forwarded to Mechanicville, NY.

Before the cars on WV-2 go over the hump for sorting there is another arrival of note here at Selkirk.  Originating at Grafton, WV a B&O unit coal train has been routed from Grafton to Rochester NY, where it leaves B&O trackage and receives running rights by special permission to proceed from the PC's Goodman St. Yard in Rochester to Selkirk.  The train will continue to Terminal Yard on the N.Y.C.T.L. and deliver cars for the Empire Power Authority.

After the railfan treat B&O coal train rolls by, the next action involves transfer exchanges between Selkirk and Mechanicville, NY. Mechanicville (seen below) is the western terminus of the B&M railroad.

Transfer BM-17 arrives with pooled PC/ B&M power hauling three empty 60 foot auto parts cars from Ford in Somerville, MA for ACME Auto Parts and NH #36116 from American Can for Van Winkle Canning.  A quick turnaround dispatch has the train (now designated as NY-20) heading back to Mechanicville with the Dresser Magcobar car from Houston, TX and the Swift reefer from ShopRite.  The transfer arrives at Mechanicville just as BM-7 runs through on the way to Rotterdam Junction where it will have a Penn Central crew and power change before continuing to DeWitt Yard in East Syracuse.

 

 That concludes the "outbound" portion of this series!  Come back next week to see cars from John's N.Y.C.T.L. and Neal's APRR arrive on the Kings Port Division!

 

 

PCCM 111: Part 2 on the KPD

 

Welcome back!

We are continuing the "outbound" portions of our 111th Penn Central Car Movement series (PCCM) also known as our "virtual ops" between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my Kings Port Division.

A cut of cars for Neal's APRR sits on a siding at West Mill waiting to be picked up by the next Penn Central VW-1 transfer south to Weehawken.

Cars for John's N.Y.C.T.L. are being assembled into a couple of cuts for the next WV-2 to pick them up for the ride to north to Selkirk.

There is also a string of cars for intra-layout delivery on the Kings Port Division.

VW-1 arrives at West Mill and stops to pick up cars for the APRR.

 The three unit consist headed by U33C #6552 uncouples from the train and prepares to pick up the cars for the APRR.

 Watch the action in the video below:

 After making the pick up VW-1 receives clearance to proceed to Weehawken and leaves West Mill with cars for Neal's APRR.

 

 Later in the day Penn Central transfer WV-2 from Weehawken for Selkirk arrives with four unit power.

 The big PC consist uncouples from WV-2 to pick up two cuts of cars 

The four units make their series of moves at West Mill:

The WV-2 crew checks the many connections and pumps up the air to release the brakes.   After receiving permission to proceed, the train heads out of West Mill toward Selkirk.

 That's it for today.  See you tomorrow in Selkirk!