08-24-2010, 09:38 PM
Kevin
Shoot me a private message and i will work on getting some photos for you.
The SKOL picks up cars that are leased by Cornejo and/or owned by WATCO from the quarry on the south part of their railroad. They use a variety of cars that are leased by the construction company and they paint a giant neon green stripe on EVERYTHING they own.
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They genearlly arrive in blocks of 20 to 40 cars and are old 4 bay Bethlam coal cars. The plant has its own dedicated switcher that works the cars during daylight hours to first unload all the cars. These cars are loaded with whatever the quarry can dump into them and the material is then is then screened into all sorts of different sizes. The cars are then shoved out of the way for loading screened material later.
While the material is being sorted they roll down and will move the cement cars that the BNSF had dropped off over night. They unload the materials here and mix it for use in all sorts of construction projects.
They then grab some of the cars they emptied and they are loaded with screened materials per the customers needs and are set to be picked up by the SKOL that night. The loaded cars are then sent back to the SKOL then to the SLWC to different customers that use the products for constrution projects.
They have also loaded small blocks of ballast cars for the BNSF UP and WATCO. The Difco cars are usually loaded with large material for Rip-RAP but maybe they could loasd used concrete ? Most recently they are recieving empty gondolas from the BNSF for loading with scrap materials from construction projects. It is mostly used rebar metal pipes from roads. These cars are lined up for the BNSF to pick at night.
Shoot me a private message and i will work on getting some photos for you.
The SKOL picks up cars that are leased by Cornejo and/or owned by WATCO from the quarry on the south part of their railroad. They use a variety of cars that are leased by the construction company and they paint a giant neon green stripe on EVERYTHING they own.
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They genearlly arrive in blocks of 20 to 40 cars and are old 4 bay Bethlam coal cars. The plant has its own dedicated switcher that works the cars during daylight hours to first unload all the cars. These cars are loaded with whatever the quarry can dump into them and the material is then is then screened into all sorts of different sizes. The cars are then shoved out of the way for loading screened material later.
While the material is being sorted they roll down and will move the cement cars that the BNSF had dropped off over night. They unload the materials here and mix it for use in all sorts of construction projects.
They then grab some of the cars they emptied and they are loaded with screened materials per the customers needs and are set to be picked up by the SKOL that night. The loaded cars are then sent back to the SKOL then to the SLWC to different customers that use the products for constrution projects.
They have also loaded small blocks of ballast cars for the BNSF UP and WATCO. The Difco cars are usually loaded with large material for Rip-RAP but maybe they could loasd used concrete ? Most recently they are recieving empty gondolas from the BNSF for loading with scrap materials from construction projects. It is mostly used rebar metal pipes from roads. These cars are lined up for the BNSF to pick at night.