CSX Coke Express

[Anonymous]

What does coke look like?

How must it be transported over the rail ... open hoppers or enclosed?

Thanks

[DPD1]

Most of it is for the production of steel. There's numerous grades produced, as they need it to burn at different temperatures, or different levels of ferocity, depending on what the steel type is, or how it is being made. Sometimes it arrives to a large mill as a type of coal, and is then processed on-site, and made into coke. The trains that go to Chicago for example, mainly go to the large mills around the lower Lake Michigan area. This is the coke facility at USS Gary Works in Gary, IN.
http://eje.railfan.net/page_maps/69sat_usxcoke.html

I don't believe they receive the CSX train, but I do think some of the mills a little farther up the Lake do.

Dave
Los Angeles, CA
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[Junctionfan]

Where does the stuff go that comes from Koppers near Buffalo (or Erie PA?)?

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD

Coke trains originate off the Union Railroad in the Pittsbugh area and are destined to Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago as the normal destinations. Train Id's are K380 to K387. Odd number are loaded, even number are empties returning to the Union RR.

not 100% ture...some of the coke comes off of nevil island which is csx and the PIRR territory....not as much as what comes off the Union..but about 15 to 20 cars a day....
on a side note..coke also use to come from koppers coke comp on the csx mon sub..but that was lost to the W&LE a few years back..now they spot the emptys and pull the loads....
csx engineer

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mvlandsw

Some has also been going to Granite City, Illinois and Lorain, Ohio. The Cleveland coke has not been running on CSX lately.

Who's the coke for in those cities?

[mvlandsw]

Some has also been going to Granite City, Illinois and Lorain, Ohio. The Cleveland coke has not been running on CSX lately.

[BaltACD]

Coke trains originate off the Union Railroad in the Pittsbugh area and are destined to Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago as the normal destinations. Train Id's are K380 to K387. Odd number are loaded, even number are empties returning to the Union RR.

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

CSX hauling entire trains of coke[:0]! Does the DEA know about this? Has Gunn ever thought about shipping coke in the old express boxcars as a way of earning LOTS(!) of money for Amtrak?

Needs covered hoppers with inhalation hazard placards. Also "no sampling" placards.....

[espeefoamer]

CSX hauling entire trains of coke[:0]! Does the DEA know about this? Has Gunn ever thought about shipping coke in the old express boxcars as a way of earning LOTS(!) of money for Amtrak?

[Anonymous]

It's not a regular train around here but I seen the CSX coke express in CNR Hamilton yard loaded and about 50 cars, this was a couple of years ago. Never seen it before and never seen it since.

[Junctionfan]

Do ship any of it to abrasives companies like Norton, Exolon or any other silicon carbide manufacturers?

[csxengineer98]

to the steel mills....
csx engineer

[Junctionfan]

Hello everybody,

When I was in Fostoria, I saw a large string of loaded coke hoppers on a CSX manifest. I have seen also unit coke trains.

Where does all that coke go?