PCCM 106 Feed the Furnace Part 2 on the KPD

Greetings all!

We're continuing this one weekend series focusing on moving scrap metal to KP Steel which in turn will send steel related products to John's New York Central Train Layout and Neal's Atlantic Pacific Railroad

In our last installment several gondolas loaded with scrap metal that were forwarded from both John's Terminal Yard and Neal's Rock Ridge Yard arrived in Kings Port and were set out at the Kings Port & Western's Williams Yard

RS3 #556 and F7A #110 pair up on The Steel Job to deliver all of these gondolas to KP Steel.

Meanwhile at KP Steel, industrial switcher #3 is moving bulkhead flatcars loaded with steel slabs at the plant.

Watch the little switcher stop for the arrival of the Steel Job.

KP Steel is working around the clock to meet customer demands, day...

...and night!

After three work shifts the scrap metal is gone and the cars have been loaded with coils and steel slabs for Mid Island Steel.

KP Steel has also produced a steel girder for the New York State DOT #10 highway project.   Switcher #3 pulls it out of one of the mill's buildings before gathering more cars to be sent back to Williams Yard.

We won't see this action but Williams Yard sent out a pair of SD9s to KP Steel to collect the gondolas.  We catch them at the yard after the Steel Job has returned. 

There's the pair of SD9s heading back to the Williams Yard engine tracks.   A couple of the yard crew guys take a look at the large girder load that will be forwarded to the NY State DOT #10 highway project.

Most of the gons and the Evans covered coaches contain steel coils.

 

Williams Yard contacts the West Mill Yardmaster to alert him that a large manifest of cars is ready for them to take North to Selkirk and eventually to John's Terminal Yard.   The FP7 consist is ready to go.

The FP7s are cleared to leave for Kings Port.  They bring a pair of boxcars to use as safety buffers on the train waiting for them there.

That concludes the action for today.  Tomorrow The Penn Central FP7s will run a train of steel products through Selkirk to Terminal Yard as Extra 4348.   We'll also see a transfer run from Williams Yard to West Mill where gondolas loaded with steel coils will be picked up by a Penn Central VW-1 to Weehawken.  From there the cars will head to Neal's Rock Ridge Yard.