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Team Tracks and the Covered Hopper?
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<p>Cement folks is NOT in LOVE with the durn things. You need to have a turbo on the exhaust of the 18 wheeler unloading the railcar. It can be done but bringing a railcar up to 12 PSI and moving product to the trailer takes time. Usually the cement went FROM the truck UP a pipe into the silo.</p><p>Then there is the matter of time to unload, viberators or hammers to get the stuff out. Cement hoppers are best unloaded by hard facitlties built to handle them. For a bad pun, one could say that these loads are kinda set in stone. Another reason that team track unloading of cement is difficult is because where I came from, you couldnt drive 20 miles without tripping over something that shipped cement from railcars or trucks.</p><p>I witnessed one day a centerbeam flat car unloaded by forklift onto a flatbed truck which took it right down to the lumberyard. I think it happened to be overflow because the lumberyard siding was too full to take any more cars that week.</p><p>A few days later the railroad retrieved the empty car and the others and went on thier way.</p><p>Down in Hope Arkansas there is a tiny cement place. I think they constantly unloaded a string of small cement hopper cars into a silo above the truck scale. You can probably see it on Google Earth near the large grain elevator in the same area.</p>
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