More operations on the Kings Port Division

[doctorwayne]

Nice work, Ralph.

Wayne

[Charlie B]

Great job Ralph. You captured the mood very well.
Charlie

[Ralph]

Thanks guys!

To continue....Tommy and Wil start working on the float. Pulling forward and onto the primary siding, they are about to hook up with five of the ten cars. The lead to the car float isn't long enough to accommodate ten cars. They'd foul the main too long by grabbing the whole string.



Once again Tommy and Wil pass Canton Box and briefly block two roads.


Backing up and slow running down the lead to the float, the cars past an Empire Grain truck unloading structure...


...and then start rolling onto the float. To avoid capsizing the car float and tipping cars in the drink, they are loaded two or three at a time on either side. It will take two moves to load the first five.




Once the first five are loaded, Tommy and Wil go back for the other five. A couple of newly painted PC 40 footers are in this group...



Backing up again...


....and the remaining cars are loaded.



The cars are secured and the Robert H. is ready to go.



That will do it for now! I think the whole car float yard scenario above could occur at the beginning of an ops session since the cars "left overnight" would be staged on a siding that I might use to run other trains later. Once that primary siding is clear I'd have more options for other trains. I seem to keep coming up with operations ideas for my layout. You should see me with a legal pad sketching potential ops moves.

[Harry]

super Ralph

[Tyson Rayles]

Always a pleasure to see your layout !

[Kev1340]

Great stuff, and really nice photos Ralph

You are making me think about including a car float on my next layout :?

Cheers,

Kev

[modelsof1900]

Great model railroading. Thanks for sharing!

[Ralph]

Thank you gentlemen for the kind words!

It ocurred to me that I've been missing an opporutnity for train meets on the other side of the layout and just rewired a couple of blocks yesterday to help make them possible.

At Kings Port, Local KM-4 waits for a KP&W coal train.


Two SD9s in the new company scheme rumble in front of the PC GP40


A view of the action from the other direction.


A long line of hoppers rolls by....



...until the orange KP&W caboose is clear, allowing KM-4 access to the next block.

[Tyson Rayles]

Awesome as always Ralph !

[Harry]

Awesome as always Ralph !

[Mike Kieran]

Ralph,
I really love how the SDs add another dimension to the KP&W color schemes. Kind of like the Lehigh Valley, but more cohesive!

[Ralph]

Thanks guys! I'm liking the new KP&W scheme too Mike, and will decorate any addtional locomotives in black and orange.

Here is a video of a similar train meet. I'm apparently trying to model my narration on some railfan videos I own!
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[cn nutbar]

Excellent Ralph ---the narration makes the video even better---have you ever considered a career in broadcasting

[Don Dunn]

Great looking layout Ralph.

Don

[scribbelt]

Hello Ralph, it's quite an impressive layout you got there , I really like the impression of the industrial and commercial activities; very nice structures, stores, background building, waterfront scene and I can go on like that for another few lines. Great job

One day I will be able to show you guys some finished scenes.....

Have a nice day