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Diesel fuel is handled in alot of different set-ups. At Elkhart, IN fuel is delivered by pipeline, tank car or truck to a point about 200 feet from the storage tank. The trucks have their own 500 GPM pump, but the unloading skid has a 1,000 GPM pump for tank cars, and the truckers like to use it instead to suck the fuel out of their trucks quicker. The distance from the storage tanks to the mainline fuel rack is about a mile, which means on the day we opened the facility, we pumped over 5,000 gallons before we got the first drop into a locomotive. At Enola, PA the storage tanks were on the Harrisburg side of the Susquehanna River and were filled by pipeline. The fuel was then pumped over a mile across the river to Enola yard. There were also storage tanks at Enola yard that could be filled by trucks pulling off Route 11/15 and "pumping" it downhill into the storage tanks. I believ that they put in a better truck unloading skid at Enola last year and turned off the pipeline. At the old Collinwood PC/CR yard the trucks could unload right at the storage tanks at either end of the yard, but then the fuel was pumped about a half mile to the fuel rack at the east end of the yard. It's best to have the unloading skid close to the storage tank and the storage tank close to the fuel rack. The less pipe you have, the less potential for leaks, but since most yards were laid out in the steam era, diesel fueling was squeezed in where it would fit. In some areas all the piping is kept above ground, and in some it is buried. Again, whatever fits.
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