Greetings All,
Penn Central Train UKP-2, a unit train of empty coal hoppers left West Mill on Ralph's Kings Port Division yesterday headed for Terminal Yard and Hudson Coal here on the N.Y.C.T.L. Check out the dispatching of UKP-2 and enjoy all the action leading up to this blog entry. You'll be glad you did!
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Penn Central U28C #6533 and U30C #6538 bring train UKP-2 thru Empire City and head onto the High Line.
The U Boats and their string of empty hoppers make their way thru Bedford NY as they head towards Terminal Yard.
1/87th scale PC Ralph is back on his regular assignment working out of Bedford Park Yard. He's giving train UKP-2 a rolling inspection and no doubt admiring the freelance hoppers from two layouts in 1/87th scale revenue service while he waits for the track to clear so he can work the Ford Plant.
1/87th scale Sir Neal is manning the front platform on E.B.R.R. #7278 and watches UKP-2 arrive at Terminal Yard while his train, EC-3, is building up air pressure.
UKP-2 rolls thru Terminal Yard on track 8 and goes over the soon to be added Weigh in Motion scale. Looks like 1/87th scale PC Ralph has been busy at the Bedford Park Ford Plant judging by those auto racks with new automobiles.
The Terminal Yard switcher has pulled the caboose off UKP-2 and heads towards the caboose servicing track. Behind teh coal hoppers, on track #7 is a block of freight cars destined for the Atlantic Pacific RR and the Kings Port Division.
Today's Coal Job gets some big power, a pair of SD9s still in PRR paint.
The engines couple up to the empty hoppers. UKP-2 is off the sheet and the train is now known as the Coal Job.
The Terminal Yard switcher tacks on the familiar Coal Job caboose.
The Coal Job has left Terminal Yard and passes the loaded to the gills Hudson Coal.
The SD9s have dropped the empties on track #3 and are running around the hoppers on track#2
The big SD9s enter Hudson Coal. Note the crew has left their caboose just short of the switch into Hudson Coal and not with the empty hoppers.
The SD9s pull the third of three tracks of loaded hoppers from Hudson Coal. The crew will back up and couple up to their caboose before heading out to get the empties.
The caboose has been placed on the main just shy of the switch. The SD9 will shove the empties back and gently couple on to the caboose and use it to protect the shove move around the curve leading back to Hudson Coal.
The Coal Job spots it final cut.
The Coal Job crew has reclaimed their caboose and after running caboose light on track #3 to Bedford Tower they have crossed over to track #2 and are now shoving the caboose to couple on to the loaded hoppers waiting on track #2.
The caboose is tacked onto the end of the train.
The SD9s have run around on track #3 and have backed up to the loaded hoppers on track #2 where the train currently sits building air pressure. Meanwhile the Dispatcher has cleared Extra 2161 West, a steel products train, to proceed thru Bedford NY and enter Terminal Yard.
An over sized girder in the P&LE drop end mill gondola has a pair of empty flatcars for spacers followed by an E.B.R.R. caboose.
With Extra 2161 West reported as in the yard the dispatcher gives the Coal Job permission to proceed to Terminal Yard track#8
The Coal Job climbs the grade behind Hudson Coal towards Terminal Yard.
The Coal Job arrives at Terminal Yard and heads towards track#8.
A slow roll thru the weigh in motion scales on track 8
After the weighing is complete the loaded coal hoppers from Hudson Coal will be blocked on a another track and made ready for dispatching to their next consignee
That closes out UKP-2 and today's Coal Job.
Thanks for reading!!!
I am really enjoying these coal train ops. Seeing the Empire Belt and Kings Port hoppers together is impressive. They just look good together. Having such a large layout really lets you show off long stings of hoppers. I am officially jealous. Nice job once again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Double E! Let me know when you want to come over and run some of these trains.
DeleteI agree with E.E., really good looking coal action on the NYCTL! I like the power for the Coal Job as well, hearing those non-turbo 567's grunting on the return trip to Terminal Yard would be epic. The Coal Job caboose is perfect for this assignment.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brian! The PRR SD9s, bought for yard and hump service, are glad to clean out their engines working the coal job. I think the coal job caboose is perfect for this assignment as well. The 1/87th scale crew however are beginning to grumble about always having the oldest most decrepit assigned to them.
DeleteAdd me to the list of liking the Coal Cob run. The scene of both loads and empties in the pics make that all come alive. What's nice is that the entire post is about the Coal Job only, nothing else, you do touch base on a couple things awaiting to move (EC-3). Great post, as always!!
ReplyDeleteThanks 1:1 Sir Neal! The coal job is becoming one of my favorite ops. It has a good railroad feel to it and the mocked up weigh in motion scale adds another level of realism to it.
DeleteHey, those EBRR and KP&W hoppers look great on the N.Y.C.T.L. too! :) Pennsey predominant with the husky SD9s and that terrific string of PRR hoppers at Hudson Coal! Neat shot of the girder load on the drop end mill gon! Glad you decided to keep the weigh-in-motion scale house. Its a cool feature.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ralph! The PRR was dominant today! The KP&W and E.B.R.R. hoppers got good play as well and I agree they look great working together on either layout! The coal job is becoming one of my favorite ops and the mocked up weigh in motion scale adds a nice touch of realism to it. I liked the girder load, from Kings Port Steel, with the spacer cars as well.
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