The good folks at Halliburton have been kind enough to build thes Frack Sand Terminal just outside of my Train Room window.
The terminal consists of two loops of track next to the BNFS main line. There are CTC controlled switches at the east (closest) and west ends of the plant. Each access to the plant has a wye, and there are two crossovers on the west end of the loops.
At the east end of the plant is the unloading hoppers and lifts, and there are ten transfer towers for loading road trucks to take the sand to their final destination. There are six spur tracks in the south east corner of the plant, and these were supposed to hold chemicals for mixing with the sand. The latest word that I heard was that they were not going to do this, but who knows, the oli business out here is quite flexible.
Were they to mix sands, their towers would allow such custom mixing by the truck load using the arrangement of sand lifts that have already been installed.
Toward the left side of the photo you can see a little red track goat that can work on road or rail. I am told that it can move 30 cars, but this I cannot believe.
This is the first train to arrive at the plant since Halliburton took possession of the plant from the builder. The builder did brin in about 20 cars of sand to test the plant before it was turned over to Halliburton. I was quite surprised to go up to my train room and see this train there. I had understood that they were going to mothball the plant until conditions improved in the Bakken.
Maybe with the election of (insert your candidate's name), the world will recover and industry can come back to normal.
ROAR
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thanks, Lion, always good to hear about any tracks being put down and any new rail shipper or receiver.
Lion you lucky man, you! A king-sized layout to watch and it didn't cost you a dime!
Firelock76 Lion you lucky man, you! A king-sized layout to watch and it didn't cost you a dime!
What does the Chicago precinct have to say about their new neighbors? Remember, they vote early and often!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BroadwayLionThis is the first train to arrive at the plant since Halliburton took possession of the plant from the builder. The builder did brin in about 20 cars of sand to test the plant before it was turned over to Halliburton. I was quite surprised to go up to my train room and see this train there.
In your joy, watch out for signs of silicosis.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
BaltACD What does the Chicago precinct have to say about their new neighbors? Remember, they vote early and often!
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Murphy Siding BaltACD What does the Chicago precinct have to say about their new neighbors? Remember, they vote early and often! ? I thought Broadway Lion lived outside of Nowhere North Dakota.
? I thought Broadway Lion lived outside of Nowhere North Dakota.
You didn't notice the Chicago Precinct arrayed beyond the road and the Haliburton facility?
BaltACD Murphy Siding BaltACD What does the Chicago precinct have to say about their new neighbors? Remember, they vote early and often! ? I thought Broadway Lion lived outside of Nowhere North Dakota. You didn't notice the Chicago Precinct arrayed beyond the road and the Haliburton facility?
Murphy Siding BaltACD Murphy Siding BaltACD What does the Chicago precinct have to say about their new neighbors? Remember, they vote early and often! ? I thought Broadway Lion lived outside of Nowhere North Dakota. You didn't notice the Chicago Precinct arrayed beyond the road and the Haliburton facility? I'm not following you. Are you talking about the picture posted in the first post above? It sure looks like ND to me(?)
I'm not following you. Are you talking about the picture posted in the first post above? It sure looks like ND to me(?)
In Chicago the graveyards vote early and often.
Halliburton handles the total frac job. The fluids (with chemicals) and the sand/propant are brought together for final mixing/injection at the wellhead. The chemicals will be stored at some Halliburton facility. As you say hey are flexible, and they may or might not get the chemicals at your site.
Note the graveyard in the middle foreground. Good eye, BaltACD !
Yes, that is the parish cemetary. You cannot see it but the new nursing home was built adjacent to that (on land that we sold to them), so have of the residents can look at the Marble Park, and the other half can watch the sand Depot.
The Monastic Cemetary is down the hill in a different place.
There is a reason why they put fences around cemetaries. It is to keep those people from getting out on election day.
(1) Balt...methinks lumberyardguy will catch on
(2) LION will most likely see Haliburton as a good neighbor. They have been at it for many decades and have many older facilities that are well managed and taken care of.
Heck I'm out here on the plains. We don't have as much problem with folks voting too many times as we have with folks not voting at all.
BroadwayLionThere is a reason why they put fences around cemetaries. It is to keep those people from getting out on election day.
Doesn't seem to work in Chicago.
Norm
Don't underestimate those folks in Chicago who've "gone to glory." They put JFK in the White House in 1960 and almost did the same for Hubert Humphrey in 1968!
Urban legends.
schlimm Urban legends.
Dailey politics.
BaltACD schlimm Urban legends. Dailey politics.
Daley was an old-time politico in the mold of NYC's Tammany Hall , i.e., a real jerk. who used a machine to govern as a little dictator. But your lame attempts at humor with 40+ year old out-of-date jokes are almost as pathetic as your attempt to blame Amtrak for CSX's dispatching irregularities. Maybe stick with your day job?
I remember (and miss terribly) the late, great Chicago journalist Mike Royko who summed up the genius (if you want to call it that) of the Daly machine in the following words:
Give the voters what they expect of you in city services, police and fire protection, trash pick-up, infrastructure maintanance, safe and clean streets, safe and well-run schools, do it in the most efficient and cost-effective way you can and at the absolute minimum of taxation, and those voters will let you get away with anything you want.
So it proved.
Royko understood Chicago and had biting wit. In Richard J's (and to a lesser extent Richard M's) terms, it was "the city that works." Unfortunately for some of us aged boomers, Richard J. Daley's time was marked/marred by the "police riot" at the 1968 convention.
Firelock76Give the voters what they expect of you in city services, police and fire protection, trash pick-up, infrastructure maintanance, safe and clean streets, safe and well-run schools, do it in the most efficient and cost-effective way you can and at the absolute minimum of taxation, and those voters will let you get away with anything you want.
Now we have politicians that get away with anything they want, and don't provide any of the services listed above.
We should let the dead vote. They pick better politicians than the living.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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schlimm BaltACD schlimm Urban legends. Dailey politics. Daley was an old-time politico in the mold of NYC's Tammany Hall , i.e., a real jerk. who used a machine to govern as a little dictator. But your lame attempts at humor with 40+ year old out-of-date jokes are almost as pathetic as your attempt to blame Amtrak for CSX's dispatching irregularities. Maybe stick with your day job?
May you continue as part of the Chicago precinct.
I adhere to the Joe Friday statement from 'Dragnet' - Just the facts.
BaltACDI adhere to the Joe Friday statement from 'Dragnet' - Just the facts.
Oh? It seems like your motto is "I've never met a fact I couldn't dismiss."
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