PCCM 101 Epilogue

Hello,

I'm wrapping up our 101st Penn Central Car Movements virtual ops series with this Epilogue post.  Anyone remember the old FBI TV show with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. that always featured an Epilogue? 

After six installments of car forwarding West Mill Yard is empty...

...well...ALMOST!!  TP&W boxcar #627 and a former NYC Early Bird boxcar, both loaded with Walsh's Steel Wool, are still awaiting forwarding to their consignee, Booms Ready Mix in Kings Port.

There is also the matter of the Swift reefer that was pulled off Penn Central's train WV-2 at West Mill because of a hot journal box.

 

Watch the RSD12 assigned to a short Kings Port Turn roll down the length of the yard to couple up to the two cars and then head out with its caboose.   The Kings Port Turn is quickly followed by Yard Switcher #8951 pulling the Swift reefer to set it out on a siding for the next WV-2 transfer from Weehawken to Sekirk.

The Kings Port Turn arrives at Kings Port where it will drop the two cars off at Booms Ready Mix which is located just to the left of Reynolds Beverage distributors.

The move will be complicated by a P&LE boxcar waiting to be loaded at Reynolds that was set out earlier by a KP&W local out of Williams Yard.  Booms and Reynolds share a spur so the P&LE car will need to be pulled and replaced after the two cars for Booms are set out.

Watch the multiple moves required to set out the two cars while a couple of KP&W employees parked in their company truck at Dave's Diner enjoy the amount of effort being taken by their Penn Central counter parts.

That finally concludes the PCCM action on the Kings Port Division for this 101st series!

Confession time!:   The number of trains dispatched and cars forwarded in our PCCMs tends to lead me to commit at least one error per series despite my best efforts to keep things organized.  I need my own Yard Clerk!  Today's Epilogue corrects two errors this time.

#1  The TP&W and NYC Early Bird cars just delivered to Booms Ready Mix should have been kept at the KP&W's Williams Yard instead of being transferred to West Mill.  They would have been included on the Yard Local that delivered the P&LE car to Reynolds Beverage Distributors seen below.  This would have taken one easy move.  No wonder the KP&W guys in their truck were chuckling while watching the Penn Central crew on the Kings Port Turn work so hard to set out the cars!

#2 The Swift reefer was supposed to continue on WV-2 to Selkirk instead of being cut off at West Mill.  The hot journal box made a good justification (cover story!) for mistakenly removing the car from the train.  Fortunately it was empty so no meat spoiled while sitting for days at West Mill! 

 

Is this anyway to run a railroad?!  It was sometimes the Penn Central way so I feel like my errors have a certain prototypical validity!  :)

Thanks for following along this series!