PCCM 101: Part 3 on the KPD

 Hello!

We're getting to the point of dispatching trains to each other's layouts  in this 101st virtual ops Penn Central Car Movements series between John's New York Central Train Layout,  Neal's Atlantic Pacific R.R., and my own Kings Port Division.

At the end of yesterday's installment we saw VW-1 leave Selkirk for Weehawken.  The big transfer run will make an intermediate stop at West Mill to pick up cars.  Among them are two cars for Neal's APRR; a 50 foot Hoschton Railway Company boxcar and PC #360063.   The rest are "non-player cars".

A crewman walks the length of the cut of cars in anticipation of their pick up by VW-1.

VW-1 has now arrived at West Mill.  Watch it make the pick up in the video below:

After picking up the cut of cars from West Mill, VW-1 continues on its way to Weehawken.

Meanwhile, at Selkirk, empty coal hopper unit train Extra 4348 has undergone a change in power and crew and is now designated as train EH-90 for Terminal Yard.  It is seen leaving Selkirk for the N.Y.C.T.L. in the video below.

 

Lets head over to the KP&W's Williams Yard where we hear the characteristic rattling of an Alco RS3.   Its KP&W #566 getting ready to run a short local run to Blue Ribbon Flour and Battaglia Brothers Warehouse to pick up three cars.

A lot of action will be condensed in the video below.  Another Hedberg Run heads uphill to Marion while RS3 #566 rolls toward Blue Ribbon Flour and Battaglia Brothers Warehouse.  The KP&W local picks up three cars and returns to Williams Yard.  Later in the day the Hedberg run returns with hoppers loaded with aggregate for a New York State DOT project that will eventually be forwarded to the N.Y.C.T.L.

Williams Yard has cars to transfer to West Mill including Cargill car TDLX #7241 loaded with Blue Ribbon flour for Ronzoni, a 40 foot Hoschton Railway Company boxcar carrying storage racks for  Terminal Warehouse, PC #229046 carrying bagged flour for Ralph's Grocery Warehouse, PC boxcar #77047 loaded with bagged landscape rock, PC gondola #288673 empty for ACCO, five steel coil coaches from KP Steel for Midland Steel, and the six hoppers loaded with aggregate for the NYS DOT project

The transfer run for the Penn Central's West Mill yard is set up on three tracks.  The transfer's consist, RS3 #566 and GP9 #761 couples to the first part of its train.  After fully assembling the cuts the West Mill Transfers leaves the yard and heads out to Kings Port where it picks up three tank cars at the Gulf facility.

The KP&W Transfer arrives at West Mil.

West Mill's #8951 gets to work breaking down the transfer from Williams Yard and assembling a train to Selkirk full of cars for the N.Y.C.T.L.

While the yard switcher works on putting the train together a light engine run from  Selkirk arrives.   West Mill is short on road power so some of arriving locomotives will be used to power the long transfer run back to Selkirk.

 

 

The cars for Terminal Yard, assembled into two long cuts, are ready for power. A U33C and two GP38-2s roll out of the engine servicing tracks and couple up to the train that is now designated as WmV-6.   The black and orange Hoschton Railway and New Haven cars look good coupled together!

An hour and a half later WmV-6 arrives at Selkirk just as an F7A/GP9B/F7A lashup typical of trains on the Boston & Albany line rolls toward the engine service area.

The cars on this train will go over the hump at Selkirk and be reorganized into a train heading to Terminal Yard.  Be sure to check out how John will show this train arriving in his "inbound" posts!

That concludes the "outbounds" from the Kings Port Division for this series.  Come back next weekend for the "inbounds"!