PCCM 111: Part 6 (conclusion) on the KPD

 

Greetings one more time!

This is my final installment for 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.    

Its up to the Kings Port & Western to finish delivering the remaining PCCM cars on my layout.  We'll start at Williams Yard where a WiBi-4 (Williams Yard to Binghamton) transfer run is getting ready to go.    The train will stop at West Mill to pick up four additional cars.

 

The four cars to be picked up include two short open hoppers to forward to the Lehigh Valley for coal loading, the Corning covered hopper which is full of silica sand for its home company, and PC #360063 loaded with food packaging materials from C&P Restaurant Supplies for Cavendish Foods.

The FA-B-A set uncouples from its train to make the pick up.

Watch the action in the video below!

The WiBi-4 receives permission to proceed to Binghamton

Follow the train's departure from West Mill and arrival at the KP&W's CS Yard in Binghamton in the video below.  There were no drones in the 1970s so the film of the end of WiBi-4 leaving town was taken from a nearby hillside!

After arriving at Binghamton some of the cars are interchanged with the Lehigh Valley R.R. and the Erie Lackawanna which both have yards near the KP&W's CS Yard.   The two open hoppers and the empty NIRX #41000 will be taken to Sayre, PA by the LV's Sayre Turn.  The hoppers will later be sent to a Pennsylvania coal mine.

The EL sends a daily transfer exchange to CS Yard from its QD Yard.  It will take the Corning covered hopper which will later be put on the EL's train NE-5 to Corning.

The rest of the cars from Williams Yard will go out on a KP&W local from CS Yard.  These include PC gon #288673 and PC #104478 for Amalgamated Container (ACCO)...PC #3600063 for Cavendish Foods and EBRR # 360279 carrying a cutting machine for International Paper, and two NYC double door boxcars for IBM loaded with wire and electrical harnesses from Bruce Electric. 

The KP&W crew for the run boards RS3 #566.

The CS Yard Local gets underway.

The local sets out three 60 foot cars at ACME Auto Parts.... 

 

Empty PC boxcar #104478 and PC gondola #288673 at ACCO... 

 PC #360063 to Cavendish Foods with packaging materials from C&P Restaurant Supplies...

 EBRR boxcar #360279 with a cutting machine from Reliable Machine for International Paper Co....

 

...and to complete the job, two NYC double door boxcars loaded with wires and cable harnesses from Bruce Electric for IBM. 

Let's return our attention to Williams Yard in Kings Port where the crew has assembled a two brown boxcar Yard Local to deliver the NYC Early Bird boxcar to Booms Ready Mix loaded with Walsh steel wool, and P&LE boxcar #35892 empty to Blue Ribbon Flour. 

 

A Steel Job to KP Steel is also ready for dispatch with P&LE gon #40331 loaded with scrap for the Basic Oxygen furnace and empty gon EBRR #509823 included in the string of cars.  The other gons on this train are nonplayer cars heading to KP Steel.   

 The red TPFX #5510 seen in the background above is loaded with lumber for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.

 

 PC depressed well flat #766053 is carrying an EMD prime mover that will replace an ailing motor in one of the KP&W's F7As.

 

 

Watch the prime mover get delivered to the engine shop, the TPFX car set out at Battaglia Brothers, the dispatch of the Steel Job and the Yard Local in the video below.

 

 The P&LE car is set out at Blue Ribbon Flour...

...and the Early Bird is delivered to Booms Ready Mix.

The Steel Job with its gondolas will soon reach KP Steel.

 

And, finally as the other cars leave the yard, APRR hopper #9416 loaded with ballast is set out on a track needing MOW attention.

 That concludes my Kings Port Division's part in PCCM 111!  I hope you enjoyed following the car movements on all three layouts!