PCCM 114: Part 2 of Operation Blue Comet

 Welcome back!

 Our "virtual ops" mission between John's New York Central Train Layout , Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R. , and my own Kings Port Division this weekend is to provide various materials and freight cars to support Blue Comet Presentations in their effort to build and ship completed model train layouts before the holidays.

The Kings Port Division forwarded freight cars of materials for Blue Comet to use in the construction of the train layouts along with cars to be used for deliveries of finished products.    Today we're focusing on the return of those freight cars.

Our old friends the Kings Port Railfan Society have staked out a parking spot at Dave's Diner near Ulster Ave.   Thanks to information from a contact working at Kings Port Tower they are anticipating a southbound VW-1 arriving and being overtaken by a rare M&E train dispatched on the west side of the river from Albany Station.

 The crossbuck lights and the sound of large Penn Central power in the distance cue the group that the VW-1 from Selkirk is about to arrive!

 Watch the VW-1 led by U33C #6554 slow to a stop while the faster M&E train powered by E8 #4317 rolls by it.  The M&E train includes an REA car and four TOFCs loaded with Blue Comet Presentations model train layouts that will be forwarded to their final destinations from Weehawken.  The blue private coach on the rear of the M&E train was a surprise!

After the M&E train cleared the VW-1's engineer and fireman who had taken time to grab lunch to go from Dave's Diner return to the #6554.

 The VW-1's consist drops off two Penn Central boxcars loaded with Blue Comet Presentations O Scale model train layouts at the interchange with the Kings Port & Western.

After completing the set out the VW-1 leaves Kings Port and stops at West Mill to set out two empty MEC bulkhead flats.

 The VW-1 then continues on its way to Weehawken with RI boxcar #35062 in tow.   This PCCM car is being returned to Davenport, Iowa.

 After the VW-1 departed, the yard's switcher pulled the two MEC bulkhead flats into the yard.

Williams Yard dispatched a similar move to grab the two Penn Central boxcars on the Kings Port interchange track. 

...and then delivered them to Battaglia Brothers Warehouse where the Blue Comet Presentations model train layouts will be held for customers to pick up.

Some of the Blue Comet Presentations' O Gauge train layouts are being shipped to customers in New England.   After arriving at Selkirk from Terminal Yard on Extra 2434, three cars carrying packaged model train setups (Empire Belt #360279, TP&W #627, and a former NYC Pacemaker) were forwarded to Mechanicville, NY.

 

 

They will soon be added to eastbound B&M freight MB-6 to Boston.  Meanwhile Delaware & Hudson train PB-99 waits next to its company's XO Tower for permission to proceed to Binghamton, NY.

B&M #1754 in its original delivery paint scheme finishes assembling the MB-6.   Shortly after it sets out the cut of cars for Boston the D&H train gets underway.

 

B&M power in the form of an F7A and two GP9s couple up to the train for Boston.  After a short delay the train heads out!

 

 

Those are the last carloads of Blue Comet Presentations O gauge layouts on their way to happy hobbyists just in time for the holidays!

 

Thanks for following this new virtual operation!