05-26-2011, 12:49 PM
One of my customers down in Jamaica is a modern railroad with GP40-2 and GP38-3 locomotives for power, but is all there for one reason: Aluminum mining. One customer. Two trains at a time, one running from the refinery north with empty ore cars to pick up 3 dozen loads of bauxite clay (12 miles out) and one train going south from the refinery with 2 dozen loads of powdered aluminum in covered hoppers with a few empty tank cars for caustic and fuel at the port, another 12 mile run.
Tom Carter
Railroad Training Services
Railroad Trainers & Consultants
Stockton, CA
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