P.C.C.M. 74: Offical series post #1

Hello!

If you read the two "pre-series" entries for this virtual ops series you will have some idea where all of the freight cars involved in P.C.C.M. 74 came from.    Several trains brought in cars to West Mill and the KP&W's Williams Yard that will be forwarded to John's  New York Central Train Layout  and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.

In anticipation of dispatching a train to the N.Y.C.T.L., West Mill's Yard crew in SW9 #8951 has been hopping!    Its worth noting as John did in his blog entry today that today marks the 50th anniversary of the Penn Central being denied a 200 million dollar loan whihc set the stage for its bankruptcy.   The guys at West Mill are unaware of this right now

After several moves the completed train is the string on the left.

Watch the SW9's crew assemble the next Train to Selkirk with cars for the N.Y.C.T.L.'s Terminal Yard in the video below:

Power for the run to Selkirk is a "covered wagon" fan lashup of two FP7s and an F7A!

Watch the consist roll out of the engine tracks and couple with the train in the yard in the video below:

After checking connections and pumping up the air the train, now designated as Extra 4362, heads out of West Mill.  Watch the action in the video below:

 The caboose on that train,  PC #22866 was a recent bargain priced  gift to myself from M.B. Klein Model Train Stuff online.

Extra 4362 arrives at Kings Port and stops short of the interchange with the Kings Port & Western.

The crew confers to decide how to most efficiently work the interchange that holds several pick ups for this train.

The coil cars and TOFCs are on two tracks south of Ulster Ave...

...while several more cars are to the north of the busy road.

After uncoupling from the train, the three covered wagons approach the switch for the interchange tracks.

 The TOFCs are nudged ahead so the consist can access the coil cars on the next track.

The units then push the coil cars across Ulster Ave until they couple up with the string of cars on the north side.

The coil cars and the various cars from the north side are then all pulled out together, passing the TOFCs.

...and are positioned behind the remaining TOFCs.

Lined up for the last pick up.

The three F units shove the long string of cars into the TOFCs, connecting all of cars from the KP&W interchange

Watch as the power runs around the long cut of cars to get to the head end in the video below.

 Watch the now fully connected train for the N.Y.C.T.L. leaves Kings Port in the video below:

The manifest on this train includes:

4 TOFC   From Williams Yd. to Terminal Yd.

PC  229046  From Blue Ribbon to Ralph’s (cake mix)

B&M RBLs 105, 109, 110   From Habitant Soup for Ralph’s Grocery Whse. (Soup)

BAR 5226 From Circle B farms to Empire Produce (Blueberries) 

LV 66392   From Wescott Cement  to American Hardware Bedford (bagged cement) 

2 Coil cars  From KP Steel to Gervais (Steel coils)

PC 288673  gon.  From ACCO to West Chemical (containers)

GM&O 21129    Quality Fabrications to Pilgrim State Hosp.  (Bed frames)

2 NYC double door boxcars   from Zenith for B. Gertz Whse  (TVs)

NYC, PC/ TOF, KP&W,  60 ft auto parts cars from ACME to Ford

LV 8247   Delco Flint MI   to Ford (batteries and electric components)

PC 360063   From Cavendish to Ralph’s Whse. 

LV 7140    Tarantino Foods for Empire Produce  (perishable food)

PC  104478    From ACCO to Drywell  (new drums)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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