Railfans observed Extra #1805 being dispatched to Weehawken yesterday with a manifest that included one Hoschton Railway Co. car for Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.
Today West Mill Yard will dispatch a train to Selkirk with cars for John's New York Central Train Layout
Yard Switcher SW9 #8951 has just finished assembling this train. As it backs up past the string of cars for Terminal Yard we see three NYC double door boxcars loaded with Peerless Appliances for All City Storage...
An EBRR boxcar loaded with IBM products for Nassau County Community College and two PS-2 covered hoppers of crushed aggregate for Suffolk Cement Products
An LV reeefer loaded with mustard and pickles from Heintz and Weber Co for Bohack Foods and an LV boxcar containing a partial shipment of Freihofer Cookies for Pilgrim State Hospital (after the West Mill crew happily ate their share...only one pallet...we hope!)
A Gulf tanker filled with diesel fuel for the Morris Park engine yard and the red GM&O boxcar loaded with drums of oil for Terminal Yard's engine facilities complete the block of cars being dispatched from West Mill today. The train will pick up five more cars waiting at Kings Port
Penn Central Power for this train is an unusual lashup of two RSD-12s with a cabless GP9B in between the Alcos. I've created this consist based on a photo of a similar prototype grouping that John R. sent me. Leave it to the Penn Central! The RSD-12s were often assigned to heavy yard work or transfer hauls. Today they will earn their keep heading a run up to Selkirk.
The odd consist finishes getting serviced at the engine track.
Watch the three unit lashup head out of the engine track to prepare to pick up its train in the video below:
Poised to back into the yard to couple with the string of cars for Terminal Yard, the engineer heads over to WM Tower to get orders while another crewman aligns the switch for the Yard Entrance
Watch the locomotives enter the yard and couple up to the train in the video below:
The brakeman walks the train checking hoses and couplers. Air is pumped up...
....and the train gets permission to pull out of the yard
...but must wait at the Yard Entrance for the daily KP&W empty hopper run to Mayfield.
Watch the trains meet here as Extra #6869 waits for the hopper run and then proceeds toward Kings Port in the video below:
An hour later the train is seen rumbling through Kings Port Station, delighting railfans and annoying waiting passengers hoping for a commuter train....
Extra #6869 arrives at lower Kings Port to pick up five cars left at the interchange track by the KP&W
We'll leave it here for today but check back tomorrow as the pair of Alcos and the GP9B perform a few moves to pick up the five cars at Kings Port before heading on to Selkirk.
To: West Mill / Rock Ridge
ReplyDeleteFrom: Terminal Yard
Acknowledge dispatch of Extra #6869 from West Mill to Kings Port.
Terminal Yard out...
Another fine installment Ralph!!! The RSD12-GP9B-RSD12 lash up looks great!!! I really liked the photo at the Kings Port passenger station. You can almost feel the station shake as Extra 6869 rumbles thru. My second favorite is the ground level shot of Extra 6869 pulling out of West Mill. The other photos were all well executed but these two stood out for me today. Videos were well done and you continue to get the sounds just right. The KP&W hopper train made for a nice meet at Ulster Ave where our favorite 1/87th scale rail fans also enjoyed it.
To: West Mill
ReplyDeleteTo: Terminal Yard
From: Rock Ridge Yard
Acknowledgement - Extra 6869 move to Kings Port and for freight to from West Mill to Selkirk
Rock Ridge Out!
Nice work and the 3 engine move as well as the hopper move. Sorry to hear that Pilgrim State will get a light load of Freihofers. We'll make not3 for the next run from Freihofer to Ralph's Grocery on the NYCTL.