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!