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<p>[quote user="carnej1"]</p> <p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;">I would not be surprised if regulators force dust mitigation onto the industry. It might be accomplished by spraying the load with an anti-dust coating, or covering it.</span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]It's actually not just the big,bad G driving the issue..in the Powder River Basin the BNSF/UP consortium has had some huge maintenance headaches over coal dust contaminating the ballast..</p> <p>There was at least one in-depth article in "TRAINS" in the last 2-3 years. IIRC, the railroads were proposing passing the added maintenance costs on to the mine operators (who, O.C would pass them onto the utilities buying the coal).</p> <p> I believe the upshot was that some of the mines started spraying the top of loaded gons with a substance that makes the dust "stick" better to the load..</p> <p>Anyone know more about this?[/quote]</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:#000000;">Yes, the railroads have their own stake in eliminating coal dust because of ballast fouling. But I would not expect the government to overlook the coal dust issue. It is made to order for government regulation. So while the railroads fight with the shippers over who should pay for the dust damage to the railroads, the government is likely to step in and force the issue for the purpose of simply eliminating environmental dust. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:#000000;">We had a thread on this topic a while back, and there were at least two different car cover systems that we looked at. In addition to car covers and over-spraying the load with a dust stabilizer, there is also the process of vibrating the load to settle the fines and get them below the coarser material at the surface. </span></p>
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