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Posted by Speaking clock on Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:50 AM

ITS ME

 

the company is continental mineral go, and it appears to be zircon.

they have a front end loader shove cars into position when they need it.

 

 

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:01 PM

recent list in order of "popularity"

 

 
STCC 60 spell
SAND FRACING 40/70 MESH
SAND FRACING 100 MESH
SAND FRACING 30/50 MESH
CEMENT,HYDRAULIC,PORTLAND
SAND,INDUSTRIAL,UNGROUND AND UNBONDED
PELLETS, SHOT OR SPHERES, OIL OR GAS WELL FRACTURE PROPPING
SALT,ROCK
SAND FRACING 20/40 MESH
ROOFING CHIPS OR GRANULES
LIMESTONE,GROUND/PULVERIZED(80% OR MORE WILL PASS #8 SCREEN)
SAND, RESIN COATED
NEPHELINE SYENITE,GROUND
SLAG,GRANULATED,WITHOUT VALUE FOR EXTRACTION OF METAL
BAUXITE (BEAUXITE) ORE
SAND, RESIN COATED - 30/50 MESH
SLAG,FURNACE,CRUSHED/GROUND,EXPANDED,GRANULATED/PULVERIZED
SLAG,BASIC-CEMENTITIOUS,GROUND OR PULVERIZED
LIMESTONE, DUST, GROUND, POWDERED OR PULVERIZED NEC
SODIUM SULFATE,CRUDE (SALT CAKE)
SAND,ZIRCON,NOT FOR METALLURGICAL USE,WITHOUT BINDERS
SALT,COMMON (SODIUM CHLORIDE),IN BULK
APLITE ROCK,CRUSHED OR GROUND
SODIUM SILICATE,DRY
LIMESTONE,GROUND,FOR ACID SOIL TREATMENT
SODIUM SULFITE
COKE,PETROCALCINE
SAND,INDUSTRIAL,OIL OR GAS WELL FRACTURE PROPPING
FLY ASH, HAVING FURTHER COMMERCIAL VALUE
CALCIUM CARBIDE CLASS 4.3 UN1402
CULLET (BROKEN GLASS)
LIMESTONE DUST,GROUND
SAND,GROUND OR PULVERIZED
ALL FREIGHT RATE SHIPMENTS,
WASTE ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, SOLID, N.O.S. CLA
PLASTER,CALCINED
ILMENITE ORE OR CONCENTRATES
FELDSPAR,GROUND
DOLOMITE (DOLOMITIC LIMESTONE), ROASTED
STONE,LIMESTONE (LIMEROCK) BROKEN OR CRUSHED
SAND & GRAVEL,MIXED
SAND, RESIN COATED - 40/70 MESH
PETROLEUM COKE,NOT GROUND,NOT ACTIVATED
SAND,INDUSTRIAL,UNGROUND AND BONDED
ORE,PROBERTITE OR ULEXITE,CRUDE,CRUSHED,GROUND OR PULVERIZED
BORATE ROCK -BORATE-,CRUDE
UREA,OTHER THAN LIQUID
SAND FRACING 16/30 MESH
LIME,COMMON,QUICK
GYPSUM ROCK,NOT CRUDE,CONSISTING OF WASTE CALCIUM SULPHATE
SYNTHETIC ABRASIVES, CRUDE OR LUMP
SODIUM CHLORIDE,IN PACKAGES & BLOCKS

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Posted by ericsp on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:06 PM

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:46 PM

According to http://www.thedieselshop.us/Data%20EMD%20SW1000.HTML , their sharpest curve/ minimum radius is 39 degrees, roughly 147 - 150 ft.  Wow !  That's almost trolley-car type radius !

(I once helped 'shepherd' a GP38 that was trapped by a derailment of part of its train over a curve that sharp to escape, but that was definitely a 'one-of' operation.)   

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Posted by CatFoodFlambe on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:30 PM

Another commodity - granules used to make roof shingles.   There was a good-sized manufacturer in the UP of Michigan at one time - most Class I manifest freights out of Chicago always seemed to have 3-4 Wisconsin Central 2-bay hoppers of them.  WC was building them new for quite some time.

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Posted by oltmannd on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:23 PM

zugmann

 

 
CShaveRR
So what do they use nowadays?  I'm pretty sure the cars in this picture would be retired by now.

 

 

Mill was torn down in the 1980s.  Not much of an issue anymore.  Still a branch or two down there with restrictions.  Part of the reason NS still rosters those anceint sw1001s, I've been told. 

 

Those SW1001s can go where nothing else could.  Low profile roof and swivel butt couplers were there to get into some really tight places...

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Posted by Speaking clock on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:17 PM

Near the microcenter in Evendale (ish) just off the highway, there is an industry that takes about three CSX two bay covered hoppers. It's some sort of stone company. Whatever the hoppers are hauling, the cars themselves are important enough to get a tan paintjob with the boxcar logo.

I'm going to tell you more when I find out more. In the meantime I'll wait till dawn to check it out. ( I've been afraid of the dark ever since I Played five nights at Freddie's)

man those jumpscares are freaky.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, February 2, 2015 9:33 PM

Hey, I represent that remark . . . Smile, Wink & Grin

Link to one of Chris Toth's absolutely great webpages on NS' current  locomotive roster: http://www.nsdash9.com/roster.html 

And to the page on the 6 each 1,000 HP SW1001's currently active - all ex-Reading, from late 1973: http://www.nsdash9.com/rosters/2100.html 

There are others on the NS roster of greater horsepower a few lines further down - 83 MP15's and rebuilds at 1,500 HP, plus 1 at 2,100 HP.

There are alos a surprising number of "ancient" end-cab switchers at various power plants and other industries, such as quarries, and cold-storage plants around here.  For example, Perryville (MD) Cold Storage has an SW1 (600 HP, per: http://www.thedieselshop.us/Data%20EMD%20SW1.HTML ) - see:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2305164 and

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,1477462 

As does the affiliated Conestoga Cold Storage, per the Trainorders.com thread above and the photo at the companuy's webpage:

http://www.mhwgroup.com/companies/chambersburg-cold-storage 

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Posted by zugmann on Monday, February 2, 2015 9:37 AM

Leo_Ames
Ancient? Not really, they're contempories of most of the Class 1 switcher fleet today and NS has plenty of road power as well of that vintage.

 

Bah... if it's older than me, it's ancient.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by tdmidget on Monday, February 2, 2015 9:18 AM

caldreamer

Other than sand, salt, cement and concrete what other commodities are carried in the two bay covered hoppers?

Concrete? You didn't give this question a lot of thought, did you?

 

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Posted by Leo_Ames on Monday, February 2, 2015 3:14 AM

zugmann
Part of the reason NS still rosters those anceint sw1001s, I've been told. 
 

Ancient? Not really, they're contempories of most of the Class 1 switcher fleet today and NS has plenty of road power as well of that vintage. 

The only thing particularly unusual about them is their horsepower rating, which isn't very common these days on Class 1's (Outside of maybe a modern genset and such here and there, only a handful of 1,000 hp switchers on CSX and Amtrak remain, along with a sole SW900 on duty for CPR and a SW1 on Amtrak which are both sub-1000 hp and I suspect are shop switchers). 

All other Class 1 switchers are above the 1,000 HP threshold. 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, February 1, 2015 8:03 PM

No idea, as to either the Chicago or East Greenville (PA) plants - never been to the Chicago one, and was mostly at the PA one during construction and occasional maintenance inspections and work, and not paying attention to the cars.     

My point is just to support zugmann's observation about RDG hauling sugar in 2-bay hoppers for the plants with tight curves in Philadelphia, by naming the types and names of a couple of them.  That led to a coincidental observation from Carl, about 2 Blommer Chocolate plants, where each of us knew about 1 but not the other.  That's all.

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Posted by caldreamer on Sunday, February 1, 2015 6:03 PM

Paul what commodities did they bring in to the factory in 2 bay hoppers?

 

 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:31 PM

Blommer Chocolate Company

600 West Kinzie St.
Chicago, IL 60610

N 41 53.378' W 87 38.578'

Right next to some very impressive main line curves !

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:25 PM

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[snipped - PDN] . . . I'm surprised to hear you mention Blommer...I would have thought that their plant just outside the Loop was their only one (go down to the City on a quiet morning and the chocolate smell pervades everything!).  They, by the way, use modern Trinity-built three-bay (gravity-pneumatic outlets) covered hoppers for their sugar.  (Blommer has spurs on two levels in Chicago--the sugar comes in on the higher level.) . . .

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Posted by caldreamer on Sunday, February 1, 2015 12:16 PM

Paul:

  What does the bloomer map that you posted represent as far as 2 baby hoppers are concerned?

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Saturday, January 31, 2015 5:56 PM
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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Friday, January 30, 2015 8:05 PM

AMFX 10100 series, ARI Through Sill, 3260 CU FT 2-bay covered hoppers are used to carry the mineral perlite for World Minerals across the USA.

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Posted by chutton01 on Friday, January 30, 2015 10:19 AM

zugmann
Mill was torn down in the 1980s.  Not much of an issue anymore.  Still a branch or two down there with restrictions.  Part of the reason NS still rosters those anceint sw1001s, I've been told. 


I think the photo-caption said it closed in 1982, and was torn down in the late 1990s.
That image of the Jack Frost mill in Philly sort of answered a (rather low-grade) question for me, and wiki confirmed it:
The 1,300,000-square-foot (120,000 m2) casino complex is located on the 22-acre (8.9 ha) site of the former Jack Frost Sugar Refinery, hence the "SugarHouse" name.
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Posted by zugmann on Friday, January 30, 2015 9:50 AM

CShaveRR
So what do they use nowadays?  I'm pretty sure the cars in this picture would be retired by now.

 

Mill was torn down in the 1980s.  Not much of an issue anymore.  Still a branch or two down there with restrictions.  Part of the reason NS still rosters those anceint sw1001s, I've been told. 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by CShaveRR on Friday, January 30, 2015 9:09 AM

So what do they use nowadays?  I'm pretty sure the cars in this picture would be retired by now.

I'm surprised to hear you mention Blommer...I would have thought that their plant just outside the Loop was their only one (go down to the City on a quiet morning and the chocolate smell pervades everything!).  They, by the way, use modern Trinity-built three-bay (gravity-pneumatic outlets) covered hoppers for their sugar.  (Blommer has spurs on two levels in Chicago--the sugar comes in on the higher level.)

Question:  how many of these plants that used to use sugar now use high-fructose corn syrup, which is still delivered in tank cars able to negotiate curves like that?

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Friday, January 30, 2015 4:39 AM

Could well be.  A lot of trackage down there was 250 ft. radius = 23 degree curves, from back in the day of 40 ft. box cars. 

There was and still is a surprising collection of candy makers, brewers, bakeries, beverage makes/ bottlers, etc. that would use sugar in the greater Philadelphia/ eastern PA area - much of which came into the Port of Philadelphia back in the day - which may explain why the Reading had so many 2-bays dedicated to that service.  For example, in addition to the one referenced in the photo that zugmann linked, there's a little chocolate outfit in Hershey (ex-RDG main line), Blommer Chocolate in East Greenville (35 miles N. of Philly, ex-RDG Perkiomen Branch), etc.

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Posted by zugmann on Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:19 PM

These look to be 2-bay sugar hoppers.

 

http://thecrhs.org/Images/CR-8719-switching-Jack-Frost-Sugar-Refinery

 

Photo courtesey of the Conrail Historical Society's page.  They had a lot of tight,  urban running down there in Philly.  I wonder if that is why they used 2-bays.

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:44 PM

PNWRMNM

Those were probably 50 ton cars.

Typical 100 ton grain car is 4500 cubic feet +/-. Wheat weighs 60 pounds per bushell. 3300 bushels is 198,000#. I do not have bushel/cuft conversion handy, and wheat cars loaded cubic full are overloaded by weight.

Modern cars 100 or 110 ton 2 bay cars are small cube compared to grain. Small cube means dense material something 65-70 pounds per cubic foot. I doubt that sugar is that dense.

Mac

 

Mac, 1 bushel = 2,150.42 cubic inches = 1.244 cubic feet. Working it all out, if the hoppers are filled more than about 90%, they will be overloaded.

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:09 PM

Those were probably 50 ton cars.

Typical 100 ton grain car is 4500 cubic feet +/-. Wheat weighs 60 pounds per bushell. 3300 bushels is 198,000#. I do not have bushel/cuft conversion handy, and wheat cars loaded cubic full are overloaded by weight.

Modern cars 100 or 110 ton 2 bay cars are small cube compared to grain. Small cube means dense material something 65-70 pounds per cubic foot. I doubt that sugar is that dense.

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Posted by DS4-4-1000 on Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:24 AM

The Reading had a lot of 2 bay and 3 bay covered hoppers assigned to sugar service.  They were easily identified by a blue box containing the "Return to" instructions and by the blue lines above and below the road name and car number.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:33 AM

Sugar is unlikely to be found in such cars; it's usually transported in cars the size of grain hoppers (5161-5250 cubic feet) with sealed hatches and gravity-pneumatic outlets.

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Posted by DS4-4-1000 on Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:00 AM

Sugar, Clay, Glass, Anthracite Coal (for water filters), Limestone Flux (for making steel)

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Commodities In A 2 Bay Covered Hopper
Posted by caldreamer on Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM

Other than sand, salt, cement and concrete what other commodities are carried in the two bay covered hoppers?

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