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I know that some of you guys have extensive magazine collections - I'm looking for an article (about 2 pages) that was (I thought) in RMC in the last 3-4 years. It is a tiny tank-car off-load facility on a spur siding that consists of track, with a power pole and a 20ft (ish) container containing pumping equipment and some hoses, that off-loads tank-cars direct to a road tanker. I thought I had it, but it seems to have gone walk-about. It is NOT "Feb 2006 "A no-space industry"" - I have that one - Any help on this would be greatly appreciared
TIA
Jack
Might it be in the feb 2005 issue of RMC? I don't have the issue at hand, but the index says there was an article called "A simple tank car unloading facility" by Rob Gallegos on page 58-59 of that issue, and the description says "This modern trackside industry takes up very little space".

So it is a different title and different year from the one it was not :-)

Smile,
Stein
What kind of tankers?
Mike - I don't know
Stein - It could be - now to try to find a copy! Thanks
Hey Jack,
I don't know if you mean Stein's article or the one about a corn syrup tank car unloading facility. It's probably Stein's answer. We replied at the same time.
It's the February 2005 RMC, page 58-59.
Don't see a "power pole", unless you meant the post that the control box is mounted on. Maersk 20' container.
The facility transfers loads from tank cars to tank trucks.
By the look of the simplicity of the facility, I would guess that it is for a specific commodity....although a larger container could hold several pumps with their own hoses, for different loads.
I don't have the time today, but if you need, I can scan the article and print it out. PM me an address to mail it to, if you want it scanned.
Very many thanks to you all - what a great forum this is!
Jack
Jack, also look at the Green Mountain Railroad. They were doing a tank car to truck transfer for years. Someone also did an article on Progressive Rail's transloading services including tank car to truck services. You don't even have to model the pump house because some customers bring along a portable pump or have pumps on the truck to unload from the tank car.
Mike Kieran Wrote:Someone also did an article on Progressive Rail's transloading services including tank car to truck services. You don't even have to model the pump house because some customers bring along a portable pump or have pumps on the truck to unload from the tank car.

Jim Hediger wrote about the Airlake Park in Lakeville in the June 2002 Model Railroader. I discussed the place with him (and with Joe Fehr, who works for Progressive Rail) on the LDSIG (layout Design Special Interest Group) yahoo forum a while ago, back in december of 2007, when I was considering doing a layout based on Progressive Rail (before I decided to go more urban and back in the 1950s instead).

You can find the discussion threads on the LDSIG forum here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig/message/73443 and here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig/message/73465

BTW, and for whatever it may be worth, I put some notes on and tried to illustrate how Jim Hedinger described the interchange between CP and PGR (as it were in 2000/2001) on this web page: http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/mo...index.html

But the article you are thinking about is probably the one Steve Glischinski did for Trains magazine back in June of 2007.

Smile,
Stein
Hey Stein,
Someone else did an article on the Airlake Industrial Park more recently after they built a switching layout of it. The one half that was built was showing how transloading could be added as extra industries without adding extra buildings. He had spots for bulk liquid, pipe, and other transload customers. I just wish that I could remember the magazine and issue.
Mike Kieran Wrote:Hey Stein,
Someone else did an article on the Airlake Industrial Park more recently after they built a switching layout of it. The one half that was built was showing how transloading could be added as extra industries without adding extra buildings. He had spots for bulk liquid, pipe, and other transload customers. I just wish that I could remember the magazine and issue.

Cool. Let me know if you find it again - probably would be interesting to read for me too.

Btw - sorry about hijacking your thread, Jack.

Smile,
Stein
Mike Kieran Wrote:Hey Stein,
Someone else did an article on the Airlake Industrial Park more recently after they built a switching layout of it. The one half that was built was showing how transloading could be added as extra industries without adding extra buildings. He had spots for bulk liquid, pipe, and other transload customers. I just wish that I could remember the magazine and issue.

I seem to remember reading about such a layout in a Model Railroader publication, so it was either in MR or MR Planning that the article would have appeared.

Mark