Scrap Glass Loading Facility

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Here's something a bit unusual that I've never seen or heard of anyone modeling. There are two of these facilities close to where I live and this one is on Norfolk Southern in Lawrenceburg, KY, located at the end of the former branch line that ran from Lawrenceburg to Versailles. Aerial view: http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.033169,-84...8&t=k&z=18.

The Lawrenceburg facility has two man-made mountains of scrap glass and some other unidentified material waiting to be loaded in to covered hoppers to be recycled, and these "mountains" can be seen some distance from the facility.

Here's an overall view of the rail siding, retaining walls and loading conveyor     Closer view of the loading conveyor     Loading conveyor looking toward end of the spur     This small Whiting TrackMobile is on the property, but hasn't been used in some time     Finally, here's a few of the empty covered hoppers NS uses for this service     Would be interesting to see how one would go about modeling the piles of crushed glass.

The other facility is located here in Frankfort on R J Corman and is a bit smaller in size (Model railroad size). Here's an aerial view of the Frankfort facility: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qbxjsr7...orm=LMLTCC.

I've been told that both facilities receive most of the scrap glass from the Toyota and Ford assembly plants. They must break a lot of windshields!