bnsf mpls northtown

[tilemaster]

ANY BODY know about the pipe train thats been there for the last week?

[eolafan]

No, but we had a long pipe train head west from Eola Yard yesterday, presumably towards Northtown on the C&I...perhaps they are related.

[bigboy4024]

is the train loaded with big whight pipes? if it is someone is puting up a wind generator farm. cause they are the towers for the wind turbines from DMI industries of fargo north dakota. i saw one this morning in st. cloud minnesota

[CShaveRR]

...perhaps they are related.

Cousins by marriage.

Around a month or so ago I was seeing a lot of pipe from the north (CP), which was shipped to Rochelle.  It was on 89-foot flats, eleven pipes to the carload (from that, I'd say that they were probably 36" in diameter, or thereabouts).  Exterior was red-oxide.  I heard that this was for some sort of north-south pipeline.  If your Northtown pipes are the same size, on CP flat cars, perhaps it's the same pipeline, different destination.

[Dakguy201]

There is a new crude oil pipeline that has just about completed the permitting process.  The route is beginning in western Canada, north to south through the Dakotas and Nebraska, then it splits and goes to a refinery in Oklahoma and another on the Illinois side of the St. Louis area.  Perhaps they are starting to accumulate the pipe to begin construction.