P.C.C.M. 58D: Trains in and out of West Mill

Hello everyone.

Continuing the latest virtual ops series we're looking at the cars that were brought to West Mill the last couple of days to form Train WMV-3 to Selkirk.  After arrival they were blocked on three tracks to help expedite sorting at Selkirk and Terminal Yard.   

The first block is for industries in Empire City:  PC boxcar #104478 for Drywell Inks and the two coil cars are for Gervais Pipe & Fitting...

 ...followed by cars for Ralph's Grocery Whse.  The NYC Early Bird and P&E car have REVCO kitchen gadgets while the P&LE car is loaded with bagged flour.

Cars for Neal's Lumber and Hardware include EL #73510 loaded with bagged cement and PC #77047 loaded with bagged landscape rock.

The next block is headed to the Bedford area where these three NYC 50 foot cars are going to All City Storage with kitchen appliances.

Cars for Hostess include PC #229046 which has boxes...

...while the B&M RBLs are loaded with bagged flour.

PC # 360158 is empty for University Milling

 Cars that will be forwarded beyond Empire City include two gons of steel slabs for Mid Island Steel

...and a steel bridge girder and two hoppers of aggregate for the New York State DOT Area 10 highway project

Finally, two cars that will be cut at Selkirk and forwarded to Denver,  a covered hopper of cattle feed and a GERN load of "Flux"

The only car that recently arrived at West Mill on the Williams Yard Transfer that is not headed to Selkirk is B&M #105 which will travel in the opposite direction to Rock Ridge for the Freihofer Bakery loaded with bagged flour.

SLX-1, dispatched from Terminal Yard with cars for the A.P.R.R.'s Rock Ridge Yard will pick up the B&M RBL at West Mill.   The train is headed by a handsome New York Central F7A-B-A set seen in this photo from John's blog. 

Unfortunately a local West Mill railfan only photographs the tops of the cigar banded lashup as SLX-1 arrives at West Mill.

B&M #105 is added to the rear of the train which then heads south to Weehawken.

After SLX-1 departs the power assigned to WMV-3 (West Mill to Selkirk) leaves the engine track.   Two FP7s and a GP38-2 make up today's consist.

The locomotives stop at WM tower for orders prior to backing into the yard to pick up the train.

The blocks of cars are coupled together to form the train

The fully formed WMV-3 passes through Kings Port, meeting VWM-4 (Selkirk to West Mill) which holds at a siding north of town.

VWM-4 started as NV-3 when it was dispatched from Terminal Yard.   Its designation changed after leaving Selkirk for West Mill.  This train is headed by an FP7-FB-GP38 consist.   Here is the train pictured as it leaves Terminal Yard.

See it pass by Kings Port as it heads to West Mill.

VWM-4 arrives at West Mill

...and work begins pulling the cars and moving them to yard tracks.

 

 Next up: local deliveries and interchange with the KP&W!

P.C.C.M. #58C: Gathering cars at West Mill

Hi all!

Its been a while but, after a variety of special features, our virtual operations group has returned to a regular series of Penn Central Car Movements (P.C.C.M.s) in which we moved mixed freight to each others' layouts.

Watch John R.'s New York Central Train Layout get things started  

HERE!

Meanwhile on the Kings Port Division several cars are being gathered from local industries for assembly into trains at Williams Yard or for pick up by other trains headed to Neal's A.P.R.R. and Brian's Ralston Creek RR. 

 Included in this run are a pair of 38 foot hoppers which will be loaded with aggregate for the New York State DOT Area 10 highway project, and PC boxcar #77047 loaded with bagged aggregate for Neal's Lumber and Hardware.

Two cars loaded with kitchen gadgets and other cheap plastic wonders no homemaker can do without are from REVCO for Ralph's Grocery Warehouse.

An NYC Early Bird with a replacement door and a P&LE car are seen being pulled from REVCO across the track from Van Winkle Canning

To continue the happy housewife theme, three carloads of new kitchen appliances from Peerless Appliance head for All City Storage.

As a departure from domestic bliss and technology here is a PC covered hopper filled with cattle feed for the Denver Stock Yards.

Steel Slabs from KP Steel are being forwarded to Mid Island Steel.

Two bread box trough cars loaded with coils are on their way to Gervais Pipe and Fittings.

A P&LE drop end gondola along with two buffer flats carries a steel bridge girder for the NYS DOT Area 10 project.

PC boxcar #104478 is loaded with new 55 gallon drums for Drywell inks

All of the above mentioned cars at KP Steel are pulled by a KP&W job that came out of Williams Yard. Once they return to Williams the cars will be tacked onto a PC transfer run to West Mill.  The KP&W operates a lot of First Generation EMD equipment.

The pair of Geeps pull the cars from KP Steel's holding yard.

...and return to their Williams Yard home base.

The Williams Yard Job passes PC 50 foot plug door boxcar #360158, now empty from Battaglia Brother's Warehouse.  It will be picked up by another KP&W job and forwarded to West Mill and eventually to University Milling

P&LE # 35892 full of bagged flour from Blue Ribbon Flour for Ralph's Grocery Warehouse sits on an interchange track with...

...Three B&M RBL cars also loaded at Blue Ribbon.  B&M #109 and 110 are headed to Hostess Bakery while #105 is bound for Freihofers where they make the best soft chocolate chip cookies!

Watch the cars arrive at West Mill on a PC transfer run headed by an aging consist of a GP9B in the middle of a pair of GP9s!

The train stops at West Mill.  The three NYC 50 footers in the foreground, seen at Peerless earlier, arrived at West Mill on a Mayfield Transfer courtesy of the KP&W.

The transfer run cars can be seen stretching beyond West Mill's business district.

Yard Switcher SD9 #6925 takes on the task of pulling cars off the train...

...until they are all set out on West Mill yard tracks.

Meanwhile a PC local out of West Mill finds EL #73510 loaded with bagged cement for Neal's Lumber and Hardware at Booms Ready Mix.

The car will be returned to West Mill to be included on a train to Selkirk and eventually Empire City.

A local yard job pulls PC #229046 from the Canton Box Co. loaded with boxes for Hostess.

Before entering the yard the local also picks up a GERN covered hopper loaded with flux for GERN Denver.

The yard is filling up and Cappy Foster's crew needs to start sorting the cars into blocks for the next train to Selkirk and to set out a car for the next southbound to Rock Ridge.

Stay tuned!