PCCM 96: Part 6 on the KPD

 Hello once again!

This is the final installment of my Kings Port Division's involvement in our 96th Penn Central Car Movement series or "virtual ops"with John's New York Central Train Layout and Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R.

You may recall that PC train VKW-5 from Selkirk to West Mill dropped off cars on the KP&W/PC interchange at Kings Port.  They were originally dispatched on train SK-5 from John's Terminal Yard.

The KP&W's Williams Yard has sent out a pair of SW9s to deliver cars to local industries and bring one back to the yard for further forwarding to Binghamton, NY.

Watch the switchers shove three gons of scrap from Gershow Recycling for KP Steel's Basic Oxygen Furnace in the video below:

After setting out the scrap gons the switchers get around the remaining two cars.

PC plug door boxcar #360158 is loaded with products from Superior Furniture for Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.   Watch the switchers pull the car away from the Corning hopper (NAHX #90404) and run it down the industrial lead to the warehouse before returning to push the covered hopper loaded with West Hills silica sand back into Williams Yard.

The warehouse's loading dock is on a lower level beyond the ballpark.

Three hours after the Corning hopper was brought into Williams Yard we now see it tacked behind a pair of KP&W F7As that will power the next WiBi-4 transfer run to Binghamton NY.

Watch the WiBi leave Kings Port in the video below:

While this action is going on in Kings Port, the yard crew at West Mill has assembled a Yard Local to serve nearby Empire Grain and LaRoche Cycle.  The green NYC covered hopper is the virtual ops car for the grain facility.  The old NYC former Early Bird Service car is loaded with gears for LaRoche Cycle from Prestige Gear.

Two "nonplayer cars" will also be spotted at Empire Grain.

Watch the delivery for Empire Grain in the video below:

The hotshot WiBi-4 that left Kings Port is now arriving at West Mill.  The Yard Local holds at Empire Grain while it passes by.

After the WiBi clears town the Yard Local continues on its way to LaRoche Cycle with the Early Bird car.

After a quick runaround move the GP9 is able to shove the Early Bird up to the Team Track platform where a LaRoche Cycle truck will pick up the load of gears.  The use of a jade green replacement door on the brown boxcar is a pure Penn Central low cost maintenance move!

Returning now to West Mill Yard the last bit of work involves loading cars onto the car float for Port Owen.  A string of KP&W boxcars that was transferred here frm Mayfield is in the way of some loaded coal hoppers for Port Owen's Con Ed plant.

The hoppers for Con Ed and EL boxcar #73510  and NYC #47062  both loaded with bagged iron ore for Port Owen Brick Co. will be put on the float. 

The yard's SD9# 6922 will work the float as usual.

Watch the KP&W boxcars get set aside while the hoppers and EL and NYC cars are placed on the carfloat in the video below:

After the tugboat Robert H. leaves the float apron with the loaded barge it takes 45 minutes to dock at Port Owen.  After arriving the float is unloaded by SD9 #6925.

The six axle EMD unit sets out the two boxcars for Port Owen Brick and prepares to shove a cut of loaded hoppers to Con Ed.

While there are still some cars left in the yard; the "nonplayer" KP&W boxcars from Mayfield that will catch the next BiWi to Williams Yard....

...KP&W #644450 and 644455 empty from Quality Fabrications for Woodstock Hills Natural Soda, and two NYC double door boxcars empty from IBM for Zenith which are all being held at West Mill until space is available on the spurs for the respective businesses...

...I will not be showing these intra-layout moves...you'll just have to take my word for it that they will be done!  Cappy Foster will make sure of it!

Thanks for following along on this 96th fun series of virtual ops Penn Central Care Movements!