Kicking cars

[JSGreen]

QUOTE: Originally posted by techguy57


But Ed, please no more holding up the Shell trains! At $3.15/gallon here in Chicago I can't afford it![:D][:o)]

So, how much gasoline actually travels by rail to the major markets? I was under the impression that most gasoline traveled in pipelines between majors...only the small places would need the tank cars...[?]

[edblysard]

It does indeed move mostly by ppeline.
I have no clue how much comes out of BP by tankcar...I do know they have a truck fleet out of there that serves a lot of places locally.
The same plant also makes, or did make the octane additives for gas, and when the plant had an explosion last year, the price of gas jumped pretty quick, seems they are one of the few refineries that makes the stuff.

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

And sorry, techguy, but Shell Deer Park, the biggest refinery on the Gulf Coast, doesn’t refine gasoline at all.
Their major product are solvents, additives for gasoline, (the no-knock stuff) lubricating oils, plastics, LPGs and the artificial stink in natural gas.
And the real stink in the air, come to think about it!

Sounds like ADM Corn Sweeteners in Cedar Rapids!

[MP173]

Ed:

I have a customer near Chicago that is a trucking company. In a way, they have a SIT yard. He built it on his own and has about 15 tracks. I know it is nothing like the SIT yards down there. Much smaller.

Anyway, he receives covered hoppers of pellets and then transfers them, as ordered to pressurized tankers for delivery.

He makes a ton of money.

ed

[edblysard]

Well,
That’s the whole idea...
It is cheaper to rent the car and the space it sits on that to try to build some other facility.
Plus, as your friend has found out, a lot of times the buyer doesn’t need or want an entire hopper full.
Bet your buddy ships to several customers at a time from one hopper.
Ed