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QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel Big pink rocks?[%-)]
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel Big pink rocks?[%-)] Sometimes, it's just best not to ask. I don't think we need to know about the Big Pink Rocks. For God's Sake Man, leave it alone! Anyway, I've never heard of beer unit trains. Coors is kind of unique in that they've made their brand reputation based on brewing with "Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water." So they're stuck brewing with that water in Colorado. This means they have to ship water (beer is basically water) from Colorado to Virginia in tank cars. Other brewers built brewerys close to their markets. They have to ship the grain and such in, but they're not paying to move water 2/3 of the way across the USA as Coors is. I wonder just who came up with the idea of hanging the Coors hat on the peg that is now a curse, the use of that "Rocky Mountain Water". But, as many of us know - there may be no beer unit trains, but there are Orange Juice unit trains. Unlike beer, which can be brewed about anywhere, OJ needs to come from warm climates where orange trees can thrive. Such a place is Bradenton, FL which originates unit trains of OJ for the New York City area.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel Big pink rocks?[%-)] Coors is kind of unique in that they've made their brand reputation based on brewing with "Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water." So they're stuck brewing with that water in Colorado.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
QUOTE: Originally posted by Norfolk Southern Railfan Those CORX beer cars in TRAINS Magazine come right through here on the NS main line.
QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel Big pink rocks?[%-)] I'm an engineer, too- only I deal with strings of ones and zeros. From my viewpoint, there are 10 kinds of people- those who understand binary, and those who don't.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding Is scrap iron ever run in unit trains? I realize that it's not a high-priority, get it there yesterday type of commodity. It would seem to me, that a big shipment from one place to another place without intermediate switching would be the economical way to ship scrap iron?
QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd Chad -- exactly what's still run in eastern Canada
QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd Chad -- exactly what's still run in eastern Canada Jamie, Where does it run from / too? I haven't heard of that before.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Tulyar15 In Ireland a lot of Guiness is moved by rail in containers which contain several kegs. At off loading points arounded the country the kegs are then delivered to the pubs. In the Irish Republic Guiness have over 80% of the beer market. They used also to have a brewery in London which was the last brewery here to be rail served but it's now closed. It would dispatch a couple of wagons loads (again containing kegs) to Scotland. Many years ago the Guiness plant in Dublin had its own internal narrow gauge locos. These could also be mounted onto special broad gauge converter cars so they could haul broad gauge wagons to the exchange sidings with Irish Rail too. I think at least 3 of these locos and their converter cars survive but the only one in working order is at the Amberley Chalk Pits museum in Sussex near Arundel. This place is well worth a visit as it contains railroad related exhibits in 4 gauges and a lot of other industrial exhibits. For James Bond fans its the location of the mine in "A View to a Kill".
QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas QUOTE: Originally posted by jchnhtfd Chad -- exactly what's still run in eastern Canada Jamie, Where does it run from / too? I haven't heard of that before. http://www.ultramar.ca/Refinery/TransportationOfProducts/ http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=133704&showcomments=true&PHPSESSID=85a62665271fe7a95603aef2a618f5a1 Regarding the crude oil trains out here. Didn't the BKDOU load at Saco (on the Fresno Line, just north of Oil Junction)? Also, while the WUDOU does unload at the same refinery (ConocoPhillips, formerly Tosco, formerly Unocal, formerly Shell), the oil goes via pipeline to the ExxonMobil refinery from the unloading point.
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