P.C.C.M. 61: Part 1: Intra-layout moves

Hello virtual ops fans!   

We're getting started on our 61st series of virtual operations that we call Penn Central Car Movements (P.C.C.M.s) .

Before dispatching a train with cars heading off my layout for John's New York Central Train Layout I'm following our Rail Traffic Management Form (which describes the cycles of movements for each car we have in common) that also includes some moves of cars from one industry on MY layout to another.   These cars will later find their way off my layout in P.C.C.M. 62

There are quite a few Intra-layout moves on the Kings Port Division this time around that include:

Three New York Central Double Door 50 foot boxcars now empty at IBM in Binghamton are picked up by the KP&W and eventually forwarded to... 

Zenith TVs in Bloomberg

After performing this set-out the KP&W pulls two empty B&M RBLs from Zenith that are later delivered to...

Corning Glass in Corning NY.

Two empty gondolas unloaded at Sal's Salvage are taken back to West Mill Yard and later carried by a Penn Central Kings Port Turn 

to KP Steel to be loaded with steel slabs.

The aged NYC Paeemaker is pulled from Amalgamated Container full of 55 gallon drums for Quality Fabrications

This PC 40' Hi-Cube is going to Battaglia Bros.Warehouse loaded with kitchen appliances from Peerless Appliance.

After being unloaded at Van Winkle Canning, PC boxcar #229046 is spotted empty at International Paper Co.

PC gon #288673 that had its Gervais Pipe load removed at Williams Yard is forwarded empty to Amalgamated Container along with TP&W 627.

And, finally, EL 73510 is coupled onto a KP&W run back empty to Salamanca, NY.

That's it for the intra-layout moves that will set up P.C.C.M. 62.  Next post will focus on the current P.C.c.M. 61 as cars are gathered to be dispatched to Selkrik for eventual forwarding to Terminal Yard and Elkhart.

P.C.C.M. 60: Final KPD installment

Greetings patient blog followers!

Here is the final installment of the current P.C.C.M. 60 series.  Considering that I really didn't receive a large number of cars this go-around I seem to be needing a lot of posts to show the delivery of all cars!   If you're up for another one, here we go!

We're back at West Mill watching the yard switcher pull cars for a KP&W Mountain Branch run to Bloomberg.   

The PC car is loaded with printed labels for Van Winkle Canning from Berk Enterprises.  The two blue B&M RBLs are loaded with University Millwork cabinets for console Zenith TVs to be made in Bloomberg.

Two KP&W grain hoppers make up the end of this five car train.  You can see one of them peaking out from the GERN tunnel after the string of cars was pulled onto this ready track.  The non-virtual ops grain cars are headed to Agway.

Power for the Bloomberg run is KP&W F7A # 160 and GP9 #769

The orange and blue power backs into its short train...

...pulls it forward from the ready track and then backs it onto the main by WM Tower...

Stops at WM tower for orders...

...and heads up the KP&W Mountain Branch

After negotiating the climb up the Catskills PC #229046 is set out at Van Winkle Canning.

The two KP&W grain hoppers are left at Bloomberg's Agway elevator.  Bell Pole located across the track is seen loading P&LE gon  #40331 with large poles for a future P.C.C.M. move. 

B&M #109 and 110 are set out at Zenith TV across the tracks from Quality Fabrications.   Remember, "Zenith...The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On!"

The last car forwarding of this series on the KPD involves these three NYC 50 ft. double door boxcars loaded with cable, wire harnesses, and other electrical components from Bruce Electrical Supply for IBM in Binghamton.  

The string of empty coal hoppers below will travel westward on the KP&W along with the NYC boxcars.   The loaded coal hoppers in the foreground were brought in by the KP&W yesterday are now on the car float ready for their trip to Port Owen's power plant.

The empties are pulled out...

B&O hoppers convey a sense of the connection the KP&W has  with the Baltimore & Ohio at its Western Terminus in Salamanca, NY.

The hoppers are pushed on a ready track to join the three NYC boxcars.

About two hours later a mixed freight coming off the KP&W route from the west arrives with pooled KP&W and B&O F7As at the head end. 

The train (East Extra 231) passes by the cars it will soon pick up for the trip west to Binghamton and beyond.

The Extra's KP&W caboose slowly rolls by the last hopper in the cut of cars.  It will soon be tacked on to this car to designate the rear of a train heading West.

The train rolls beyond the entrance to West Mill Yard to shove its cars into the yard tracks.

Making the reverse shove...

Once the cars from East Extra 231 are set out at West Mill Yard the locomotives are freed so they can move in front of the cut of NYC boxcars and empty hoppers.

The train now identified as West Extra 110 heads out of West Mill toward Binghamton, NY.

After the train reaches Binghamton the NYC cars are removed from the train and sorted into a local to be spotted at IBM. 

That concludes P.C.C.M. 60 on the Kings Port Division!  Thanks for following along!   Check out this action on the other layouts participating in this series!

John R. New York Central Train Layout

Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.

John B.'s Los Feliz and Northwestern