P.C.C.M. 78 Grain op 3!

 Hi railfans!

Well, once again I'm posting about the grain op that I missed because of an internet service outage.  Here is the last installment I would have posted at the time if I could have.

I'm hearing that my videos don't seem to play and that this is becoming a problem for others using Blogger.  Not sure what's up.  I apologise if the videos in this post do not work and hope to hear about a "fix" soon!

Meanwhile, on with the original post:

Yesterday a unit grain train was dispatched from West Mill to Selkirk an eventually to Terminal Yard on John's  New York Central Train Layout .   The cars were forwarded to Terminal Yard's Pier 16 and the massive elevator there.

After unloading, the cars are quickly returned to their home layouts.   Here we are at Ulster Ave in Kings Port waiting with a Super 8 camera to capture the returning unit train.

It will be coming from under the overpass on the north side of town in the distance. 

A horn is heard, but from the opposite direction.  A mixed freight is heading toward Selkirk on Track 2.   Watch the northbound roll by before the grain train blasts southbound through Kings Port on its way to West Mill.  Hmmmm....looks like either giant spiders or tent caterpillars built a nest on the crossbuck!  The video below was filmed with my iPhone instead of my old Cannon and it seems every detail is clear to see!  An extermination crew subcontracted by the Penn Central took care of it after this video was posted!

By the way, the northbound was powered by an F7A-B-A consist with the first two units still in their pre-merger PRR livery but with conforming numbers applied in anticipation of the PC merger.   Their story will be featured in a future blog post.

Later in the afternoon the grain train arrives at West Mill, headed by the same pair of six axle U Boats assigned at Terminal Yard.

Several empty grain cars roll into West Mill for later forwarding to other destinations.   That concludes this special unit grain op! Thanks for following along!

Check out the action on Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.  as empty grain cars are returning to his layout as well!