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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by richardy All of the power plants in Oklahoma turn the whole train on a loop track that passes through the rotary dumper. The lead units remain the lead units. Richard [/quote] Same here. I live by a deep-sea port where they dump numerous coal trains a day. The trains just run around a Balloon track while going through the dumpers and the unit on the head end stays as the unit on the head end and the unit on the tail end stays as the unit on the tail end. The funny part is, for whatever reason around here, the unit on the tail end always seems to be the one with air conditioning. It's a little different than the push-pull of commuter trains. With the commuter trains there is only ONE locomotive and it stays on the same end all the time. When the train goes one way the locomotive pulls the train and the engineer rides in the front in the locomotive, when the train then starts the other way the engineer rides in (what used to be the last car) in a control cab, and the locomotive is on the other end pushing the train. Basically the control cab is just a little desk in the last car that controls the locomotive on the other end of the train, making the locomotive run in reverse and pu***he train. In the case of the unit trains with a unit on the trail and the head end, there is always a locmotive on both ends. [/quote] Macguy: The Roberts Bank Superport in Vancouver is certainly impressive to behold! I'd heard that it has pretty much reached it's designed capacity. Are the Port officials and the B.C. provincial government under Gordon Campbell planning to use landfill to further expand the size and capacity of the port out to sea, or are they intending for the proposed expansion of the Port of Prince Rupert to take the pressure off of Roberts Bank? Also, is there a decent website that covers in detail the expansion of Prince Rupert? Thanks in advance for any info that you might have. Sincerely, Ross R. Moore, Jr.
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