P.C.C.M. 59: 4th KPD Installment-A Push/Pull Local Job.

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P.C.C.M. #59 is reaching the point on the Kings Port Division in which cars are being set out to their consignees.   Deliveries for Sal's Salvage and Canton Box Co., which are both located right near West Mill Yard, are creating a bit of dilemma.  Both businesses are due to receive more cars than their spurs can accommodate.   Yardmaster Cappy Foster has decided to expedite the forwarding of half orders to both industries with a promised quick turnaround once his office receives reports the cars are ready to be moved. 

In the case of Sal's Salvage, four gondolas of rough scrap are consigned to the scrap yard that can only accommodate two.  Yard Switcher #8951 pulls two of the four gons and sets them on another track for later delivery

The gray covered hopper behind the two gons is for GERN...but its poorly placed.  GERN and SAl's Salvage share a rail spur but the GERN car will need to be ahead of the gons when they are all pushed into their respective stops.  The crew of #8951 pulls all three cars so it can set the GERN car on another track for repositioning.

While these moves to get the GERN car up front are being carried out, the power for today's Yard Job, a GP7 still in its aging NYC livery, fires up and moves into the yard.

The Geep gets into place as the yard switcher finishes putting the GERN car and gons in the correct order for forwarding.

The next move is to shove the three cars into the waiting Geep which will push the cars into the spur shared by Sal's and GERN

The Geep surges forward but it will do a back up move into the next track to pick up a PC boxcar car for Canton Box which has a siding oriented in the opposite direction from Sal's/GERN.  This move will make it easy to set out the PC boxcar after dropping off the gons and covered hopper. 

Picking up PC boxcar #104478 loaded with printed labels from Berk Enterprises for Canton Box Co.   The NYC double door boxcar #47062 is also consigned to Canton Box but their spur and loading dock can only receive one car.

See the Yard Job get set up in the video below:

After picking up the PC boxcar the short Yard Job is underway!

Cars are set out at GERN and Sal's Salvage.

After working the "leading point" spur the Yard Job moves through the maze of switches near WM tower to back PC #104478 into Canton Box Co.'s "trailing point" spur. 

The short Yard Job completed, the GP7 heads back to the West Mill engine track.  A similar move will completed within a day or two to set out the rest of the cars for Sal's and Canton Box.

See the Yard Job at work in the video below:

Next up:  The Kings Port & Western takes over.

P.C.C.M. #59: 3rd KPD installment: Cars from Terminal Yard arrive!

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P.C.C.M. #59 is shaping up to be a great series already as 

John's New York Central Train Layout 
Neal's Atlantic Pacific RR
Brian's Ralston Creek RR blog 
John B.'s Los Feliz & NW

and my Kings Port Division have all posted about sending trains off our layouts to forward cars to each other in this virtual ops scheme.  

Now is the time to post about incoming trains and the follow up work needed to deliver them to their consignees.

On the Kings Port Division Train VWM-4 (Selkirk to West Mill) is first seen in the video below as it descends into Kings Port.  A pair of Penn Central FP7s area at the head end of this fairly short train. 

Later as the train rolls through Kings Port it encounters a red indication and has to stop short of Ulster Ave.  

VWM-4 will hold there for a priority freight headed by pooled B&O/ KP&W power with B&O KP&W and LV cars in tow.

See VWM-4 come to a stop and the crew take a break at Dave's Diner While the B&O/  KP&W freight overtakes it below:

Once the track is clear VWM-4 gets permission to proceed.

VWM-4 arrives at West Mill Yard.

The crew departs WM-4 at West Mill.

Cars on this train headed for Kings Port Division business include these two Evans breadbox trough coil cars, empty for KP Steel...

...EL #73510 loaded with crates from Neal's lumber for Peerless Appliance, NYC #80755 carrying Walsh Steel Wool muffler mesh for ACME Auto Parts....

...TP&W #627 bringing printed labels from Berk Enterprises to Van Winkle Canning, PC #77047 loaded with pallets for Woodstock Hills Natural Soda...

...PC #360158 is loaded with wood cabinets for Zenith TV sets...

PC #104478 has drums of ink from Drywell Inks for Canton Box Co.

..four gondola loads of rough scrap for Sal's Salvage metal shredder

The caboose is pulled.

The crew breaks for lunch.  A couple of hours later another train from Selkirk to Weehawken stops at West Mill.  My understanding of Penn Central's River Line operations was that around five trains a day would run consecutively in one direction between the major yards before five more would run in the opposite direction.

The West Mill yard crew is busy sorting cars brought in by VWM-4

 ...when the next train from Selkirk arrives with more cars for West Mill.

A pair of GP40s leads the train.

The cut for West Mill is seen here.  They have been forwarded from Colorado via Elkart Indiana.

See the action in the video below:

 After the train stops the yard's SD9 gets to work pulling the four cars to be set out at West Mill.

Cars include this empty GERN covered hopper from GERN's Arvada Colorado distribution center for West Mill's GERN facility

PC covered hopper #890658 empty for Cavendish Foods to fill with leftover wort as cattle feed for the Denver Union Stockyards.  The GT boxcar is loaded with motors from Wazee Electric for Peerless Appliance.

NYC #47062 contains rolled cardboard from Rockmount Supply for Canton Box Co.

That's it for now.  Stay tuned as Penn Central locals and KP&W jobs deliver all of the cars to their final destinations in this series.

P.C.C.M. #59: 2nd installment from the KPD. WV-2 arrives!

Welcome back virtual ops fans!  We are in the opening posts of our 59th Penn Central Car Movement series, this time involving five layouts!

My previous post was all about action on my layout as cars were forwarded to industries on the Kings Port division or returned to West Mill Yard.   Cars sent to West Mill are now being sorted into a long block to be picked up by WV-2 from Weehawken.  WV-2 will include cars sent from Neal's Rock Ridge Yard to Weehawken originally as train RW-1.   WV-2 will stop at West Mill to set out and pick up cars for John R.'s  New York Central Train Layout and Brian's Ralston Creek RR.

See Neal's post about dispatching RW-1 HERE

You'll recognize cars from RW-1 when they arrive at West Mill on WV-2.

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Meanwhile, at West Mill, SD9 #6925 is the yard drill assembling the block of cars that will be heading to Selkirk and beyond.

Cars for industries on the New York Central Train Layout are coupled together. 

The boxcars, Evans coil cars, and hoppers will be moved to the track in the background into that pair of covered hoppers. 

...along with the depressed well flat with oversized load.  Those three cars will be forwarded to the LIRR.

This string of cars is blocked for Brian's Ralston Creek RR

 10:05  The rest of the cars back into the Ralston Creek block, creating a long cut for pick-up by WV-2.  The tail end is seen below.

While the head end is near Sal's Salvage

14:30:  WV-2 arrives at West Mill. 

The cars from RW-1 comprise the first block on WV-2, starting with the two PC corrugated gondolas behind the locomotives...

...and ending with the red TPFX car.

WV-2 comes to a stop and the power is cut to pick up the cars at West Mill.

The trio of GP38-2s is coupled to the long cut, now making it a train.   Air is pumped up and once all tests are done the train is ready to proceed to Selkirk.

Passing through Kings Port, here is the line up:

The Hoschton Railway Co car is consigned to Ralph's Grocery Whse. with a load of baked goods from Fisher Foods.  The BAR car is loaded with Maine blueberries for Empire City Produce.

Three TOFCs with empty trailers for Terminal Yard.

Three 60 foot auto parts cars for Ford.

Two Evans Breadbox coil cars with steel coils for Ford.

Six empty hoppers being forwarded to Hudson Coal.

Cars being forwarded to the LIRR: Two covered hoppers of flour for the Ronzoni Company.

A large air conditioning unit from Peerless Appliance for SCC College's building expansion project.

A cut of cars to be transferred to the Ralston Creek RR for consignees in the Denver region:  SP boxcar 127433 loaded with bagged flour from Blue Ribbon for the Star Bread Co.  The CB&Q gon of scrap is for Ball Container in Golden CO.

The white LV boxcar is loaded with new bottles from Corning glass for Tivoli Beer, B&M #74005 is loaded with Peerless Appliances parts for Lefty Martin, and the PC Hi Cube is full of Peerless products for an authorized Distributor in Denver.  

And now the block from Rock Ridge:  two corrugated gons with steel slabs for Mid Island Steel.

Three PC cars loaded with juice products from Tropicana for Ralph's Grocery Whse.

The Triangle Pacific car is being returned empty to BCOL/Vancouver via Selkirk.  The car will eventually be loaded with apples for Empire Produce.   The rest of the train consists of non-virtual ops cars headed to Selkirk.

The one car from Rock Ridge pulled from WV-2 is PC #360063 loaded with delicious Freihoefers baked goods for Battaglia Whse. 

That's it for cars moving off the Kings Port Division.  Next up: the arrival of a train of cars sent from the NYCTL at West Mill!