This is a special brief P.C.C.M. #52 between the N.Y.C.T.L. and the Kings Port Division. John R. recently posted about several scrap loads he made for his fleet of gondolas so we've decided to run a virtual op of a long string of empty gons leaving Kings Port for Gershow Recycling in Medford NY (which is served by the L.I.R.R.) where they will be loaded and returned to the steel mill.
Several empty gondolas sit in KP Steel's holding yard.
There are only a few carloads of scrap left to supply the new Basic Oxygen Furnace at KP Steel so its important to move those empties!
Williams Yard sends out a pair of GP9s to pick up the empty gons.
Arriving at KP Steel the KP&W units couple up with the first cut of cars.
The Geeps notch it up to pull the first cut out
...and then back up to pick up the second group.
All coupled up, the long string of gons is ready to be pulled to Williams Yard.
See the KP&W haul the cars out in this video.
After the cars were set out at Williams Yard the Geeps take off. The gondolas will be eventually added to Penn Central train WV-2 that is coming from Weehawken to pick them up for Selkirk.
WV-2 arrives at Kings Port.
A set of KP&W switchers prepares to shove the gons onto the back end of WV-2
See WV-2 arrive at Kings Port and Williams Yard in this video.
The switchers push the cut of gons into WV-2
After the PC caboose is tacked onto the back end and air pressure checks are completed WV-2 proceeds to Selkirk where the gons will be sent to Terminal Yard and forwarded to its L.I.R.R. connection for Gershow Recycling in Medford NY.
Stay tuned to John's blog to see what happens next!
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Acknowledge dispatch of PC Train WV-2 from Williams Yard to Selkirk with a block of cars for Terminal Yard.
Terminal Yard out...
Nice work Ralph!!! A very enjoyable installment. The narrow focus of this P.C.C.M. looks to be working well while not diminishing the ops potential and enjoyment. Great job adding the videos and including the KP&W.
Thanks John. This op seemed a natural follow up to al of your work creating new gons with scrap loads. It was fun to run a limited operation focused on one commodity.
DeleteVery nice work with the gondola cars. This is a great little train movement and sounds like we can do this with quite often!
ReplyDeleteThanks Neal. It sure seems that a scrap run might be an easy one to expand on between more layouts in the virtual ops.
DeleteNice segment with Kings Port Steel and the gondola block. I’m with Neal, I think this could have a nice potential for future PCCM segments.
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me!
DeleteEnjoyable segment. Those loads are going to look great coming back.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I had to hustle to get mine ready for the return trip! :) John did a nice job on his.
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