PCCM 95: Part 4 on the KPD

Greetings!

We're now starting the "inbound" installments of this 95th Penn Central Car Movement series.   Trains from John's New York Central Train Layout and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.  will arrive on my Kings Port Division with cars to be forwarded to various consignees.

Last weekend John dispatched SK-57, a long train with cars for both the APRR and the Kings Port Division from Terminal Yard to Selkirk.  Here is a photo John posted of the train leaving his Terminal Yard.

 

It is seen arriving at Selkirk in the video below.  As the train stops we see the the sixth coal hopper representing the end of the block for the KPD.  Cars for the APRR are unseen behind the last coal hopper in the KPD block.

The cars for the APRR are cut and will be dispatched to Weehawken (and then to Rock Ridge Yard) on a separate train.  The remaining cars for the Kings Port Division continue their way to Kings Port as train VKW-5 with their original four loco consist.  Kings Port is unusually quiet while awaiting the train's arrival.

An hour and a half later the silence at Kings Port is broken by the rumbling of Penn Central power as VKW-5 arrives!

A cut is made behind the block of cars that will be dropped off at Kings Port.

Cars dropped off by VKW-5 include five empty steel coil coaches for KP Steel, two NYC double door boxcars from Bruce Electric for IBM that will be later forwarded by a KP&W "WiBi" from Williams Yard, a gon load of pipe for the Hudson Valley Ag Coop, and a depressed center flatcar carrying a rebuilt EMD Prime Mover for the KP&W's locomotive shop.

After the work is taken care of at Kings Port, VKW-5 leaves town for West Mill.  The train may be a little over-powered but the tractive effort is always appreciated when climbing toward the Division's summit at Marion.

VKW-5 arrives at West Mill in time to enter the yard before...

....WV-2 (Weehawken to Selkirk) arrives with cars from Neal's APRR.  This was a nicely timed meet!  The WV-2 is powered by a GP30/F7B/GP38 consist.

After WV-2 comes to a stop its power receives permission to enter the yard to drop off cars. The cut for West Mill is uncoupled from the train.

Watch the set-out in the video below:

 The drop off completed, WV-2's power returns to its train for Selkirk.

The WV-2 receives clearance to run to Selkirk and leaves town.   Meanwhile back in Kings Port the cars that were set out earlier on the interchange by VKW-5 await handling by the Kings Port & Western.

A KP&W GP9 pulls the string of cars to the north of Ulster Ave out of the way and then shoves the five empty steel coil coaches into KP Steel's yard.

 The Geep comes back for the remaining cars.

 

 PC gon #288673 with a pipe load for the Hudson Valley Ag Coop will be brought back to Williams Yard along with the two NYC double door boxcars, but first that EMD Prime Mover on the depressed well flat needs to be delivered to the KP&W engine yard.  The gon is set aside for the delivery move.

The Prime Mover is now inside the KP&W shops.

The PC gon is reclaimed and the job gets ready to return to Williams Yard.

The PC gon #288673...is later seen being unloaded for HVAC in Williams Yard.

A pair of KP&W switchers begin assembling train WiBi-4, the next transfer run to Binghamton.  The two double door NYC boxcars are loaded with wiring and cables from Bruce Electric for IBM.

 After the WiBi is assembled a KP&W F7A&B set couples up to the head end and prepares for departure to Binghamton with a scheduled stop at West Mill to pick up six cement hoppers.

We'll stop here for today.  Tune in tomorrow for more KP&W and Penn Central action!