PCCM 99: Part 5 on the KPD

Hello again!

We are continuing to follow the action on John's New York Central Train Layout, Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division in this 99th Penn Central Car Movement series!

This morning we're in Kings Port visiting the KP&W's Williams Yard where TOFCs from Terminal Yard are being off loaded...

....irrigation pipes from Gervais Pipe and Fittings for the Hudson Valley Ag Coop brought in EB gon # 509823 are being delivered...

..and a transfer run to the KP&W's Mayfield Yard has been assembled with three 60 ft. auto parts cars for ACME Auto Parts...

...olive green LV boxcar #66392 loaded with paint and supplies from American Hardware for Amalgamated Container Co.,  red, white, and blue BAR car #5226 carrying imported tea from Neubaums for Cavendish Fine Foods....

...and two Southern R.R. bulkhead flats that will be dropped off at West Mill on the way to Mayfield.  The transfer will also pick up cars there.

Watch the transfer to Mayfield leave Williams Yard and roll through Kings Port, meeting a one car local returning to the yard powered by an aging Baldwin S-12.

 Meanwhile, over at West Mill Yard the crew hustles to set out cars for the Mayfield Transfer before its scheduled arrival an hour from now.   The cut includes three Hi Cubes for Peerless Appliance forwarded empty from PC Richards and a covered hopper of Morton Salt for Cavendish Fine Foods.

The cars were set out in plenty of time before the Mayfield Transfer arrives at West Mill.

The Transfer's brakeman cuts the two Southern bulkhead flats from the train.  The Morton Salt car to the left will eventually be picked up along with the three Hi Cubes and coupled to the BAR car.

The KP&W F7A&B make the pick up.

After the pick ups are coupled onto the Mayfield Transfer the two bulkhead flats are then set out.  These two cars will eventually be forwarded empty to Half Moon Wholesale Lumber on a Southbound Local out of West Mill.

The pick up/ set out exchange completed, the Transfer continues to Mayfield Yard.

The transfer from Williams Yard is about to arrive at Mayfield where we can see cars that were forwarded there earlier from West Mill, including  NYC #80755 heading empty to ACCO and two KP&W hoppers that will be taken to coal country by the Lehigh Valley.

 The Transfer from Williams Yard arrives at Mayfield

 The Mayfield crew quickly arranges the cars on the Transfer into a local powered by KP&W GP9 #761.   The train is run as an extra and receives the loco's number as its designation.

Extra #761 pulls out of Mayfield.

As the Extra's caboose rolls by we can see a pair of LV units at the head end of long string of empty coal hoppers that include KP&W #233 and 234.  That train will be departing Mayfield soon.

 

After a short run out of the yard Extra #761 sets out three empty Hi Cubes at Peerless Appliance.  The NYC boxcar is being used to help shove the Hi Cubes past some tight clearances that the locomotive would not negotiate.

Next stop down the line is Cavendish Fine foods which receives its BAR boxcar loaded with Tea and the covered hopper full of salt.

The next delivery on the switch list is three 60 foot empty cars for ACME Auto Parts.  These will be loaded for the Ford Motor Co.

The last stop on this local run is Amalgamated Container Co. (ACCO) which gets an NYC empty boxcar to load for Drywell Ink and an LV car full of paint and related supplies for ACCO's 55 gallon oil drums.

That's the end of Extra 761's work today.

Lets go back to Williams Yard again.    We're in time to see the crew of The Steel Job board GP9 #769 in Kings Port.  Today's Steel Job will haul a number of gondolas loaded with scrap metal to KP Steel for its Basic Oxygen Furnace.  The neat looking scrap wheel loads were created by John and provided to the KPD as a gift!  They look great!

The PCCM cars on the Steel Job are PC #576104 and 576123.

Watch the Steel Job leave the yard and set the gons out at KP Steel

That concludes today's action!  Come back tomorrow for more car forwarding fun!