P.C.C.M. 48F: Arriving at West Mill

Hello all!

We're back with another multi layout Penn Central Car Movement series.  This one started with John B. ,....
http://modelrrmisc.blogspot.com/2018/06/pccm-48b.html

and Brian....
https://ralsontoncreekrailroad.blogspot.com/2018/06/pccm-48c-early-morning-at-elkhart.html

...both sending cars from the west toward John R.'s New York Central Train layout.

John R. will pick up the action at the end of the series as all manner of cars head toward his layout's Terminal Yard from John, Brian...

...and Neal:
http://atlanticpacificrailroad.blogspot.com/2018/06/pccm-48e-changes-at-weehawken-for.html

...and from me as well!  

My first installment of this series features the train Neal dispatched from his Atlantic Pacific Rock Ridge Yard to Weehawken where a PC power change occurred.   The train is seen arriving at West Mill at 06:30 with two locos running "elephant style".

The train can be see behind the tops of cars at West Mill Yard

Some of the rolling stock noted include Penn Central covered hoppers

An eye catching Morton Salt car

Two Kings Port & Western boxcars which will be cut here at West Mill

The caboose comes into view as the train stops at West Mill.

The first order of business is to pull the two set outs; the KP&W boxcars.   Yard switcher SD9 #6925 gets the call.

Pulling the caboose and other cars in front of the two set outs.

Got 'em!

Shoving the cars past their former train....

The two cars are placed on one of West Mill's yard tracks.  A KP&W coal train is seen in the distance waiting at the junction for permission to proceed into West Mill. 

West Mill has a block of cars to add to this train which will eventually be forwarded to the L.I.R.R.  These include P&LE #35892...

...which was loaded with cartons for Sunshine Biscuits at Canton Box

P&E #3638

Loaded with Cavendish packaged meals for Pilgrim State Hospital

Three 38 foot hoppers

Loaded with Hedberg aggregate for the New York State DOT #10 highway project

PC 229046 and EL 73510

Loaded with Blue Ribbon cake mixes for Pilgrim State Hospital

and Peerless kitchen appliances for Friendly Frost in Westbury.  

The end of the block consists of three NYC double door 50 footers

...Loaded with TVs for B.Gertz Warehouse in Jamaica.

SD9 #6925 couples onto one of the NYC cars and takes the cut out to the train.

That's it for now!  Next post will feature the dispatch of this train to Selkirk where it will be forwarded to Terminal Yard...along with a Special Extra second train with unusual loads.  Stay tuned!

Extra #3175 rolls through the Kings Port Division

 Hi there!

I'm posting again so soon because the New York Central Train Layout has dispatched Extra #3175 which is composed of a GP40 locomotive and a series of covered hoppers all painted and lettered by John R.

Take a look at John's fine work on these projects here:
http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/2018/05/dispatch-of-extra-3175.html

Time for the loco and cars to head out to Neal's layout!  As part of our virtual ops scheme they will pass through my Kings Port Division on the way to Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR layout.

The esteemed Kings Port Railfan Society, is having its weekly breakfast meeting at Dave's Diner.  The K.P.R.S. is actually just a casual group of friends with names like T.C., Chooch, and Benny.   Usually on top of the latest train movements, they learned about Extra #3175 a little too late just when it passed right by their diner window!  T.C. managed to get a quick shaky shot of the newly painted GP40 #3175 with its orange C logo before running out of film!   Should have checked that! He drops a new roll in his camera and..  

...The guys quickly throw cash on the table and try to get out of the restaurant but the train's caboose is just rolling out of sight. They missed the string of new covered hoppers for the A.P.R.R., the Empire Belt R.R., and the Penn Central. 

Scramble! Scramble!! Scramble!!!  The guys cram into Chooch's VW bug so they can try to catch up to the train.

Dang it!  Benny left his glasses on the table!  Delays!  Delays!!

Everyone finally squeezed in, the bug takes off to catch the train at West Mill.

The crossing lights were blinking but nothing obvious was coming so the group unwisely pushed on through the crossing only to be blocked by a helper set of FP7s slowly backing up toward Williams Yard.

"Let's Go!" shouts T.C. over the diesel horn warning blast as the road opens up!

Taking a bridge, the group finds themselves behind a slow moving cement mixer! "Oh come on!!!!"

They get to West Mill just in time to see the caboose go by again!

Racing a little farther, they stop at an overlook on West Mill Yard and once again catch just the caboose ducking into the tunnel at the south end of town.

Oh well.  Time for lunch at Mussachia's Ristorante anyway! This group likes to eat as much as they like watching trains!

You can catch the newly painted loco and rolling stock when they arrive on Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.:
 http://atlanticpacificrailroad.blogspot.com/

P.C.C.M. 47i: Cars return to West Mill

Hi all,

After going off script and sending cars to the New York Central Train Layout and the Ralston Creek RR out of order of our Rail Traffic Management Form in an effort to quickly showcase some new industries, its time to get things back into order for future Penn Central Car Movements (P.C.C.M.s).  The current 47th series of P.C.C.M.s is nearly finished as the Ralston Creek RR is forwarding cars westward.  

See how John gathered and sent back the cars in his latest entry:
http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/2018/05/pccm-47h.html

And keep an eye open for how Brian is working with cars sent his way:
https://ralsontoncreekrailroad.blogspot.com/

Cars left John's Terminal Yard on NV-3 and have reached Selkirk Yard.  They were given new power and sent southward to West Mill as Extra #8150

Things are quiet for a short time at Ulster Ave in Kings Port...

...until a trio of GP9s with a recently washed unit still in its PRR livery cross on a caboose hop.

As the trio of early Geeps goes by Extra #8150 overtakes them on the main.

The train is powered by a pair of GP38-2s.

Like the proverbial swallows to Capistrano, all of the cars recently sent to Terminal Yard now return to West Mill.

 Extra #8150   arrives at West Mill and slows to enter the yard.

The train comes to a halt and the crew disembarks.

Cars in the yard will be forwarded to their next destinations as designated on the Rail Traffic Management Form, which will be featured in P.C.C.M. #48.  See you again soon!