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kamerad47 Wrote:Those containers are contaminated dirt, If you look around on you tube there are some vids of NS bringing those spine cars to the interchange. the Tyburn RR is basically a transload yard & they interchange with CSX & NS no real tracked , alot of tank cars & covered hoppers . There loco power is a 44 ton & 45 ton .
Thanks for that, so just so I have this correct, are the containers being loaded or unloaded in the transload yard? If they are being loaded i gues they are going off landfill?
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jhock Wrote:kamerad47 Wrote:Those containers are contaminated dirt, If you look around on you tube there are some vids of NS bringing those spine cars to the interchange. the Tyburn RR is basically a transload yard & they interchange with CSX & NS no real tracked , alot of tank cars & covered hoppers . There loco power is a 44 ton & 45 ton .
Thanks for that, so just so I have this correct, are the containers being loaded or unloaded in the transload yard? If they are being loaded i gues they are going off landfill?
I don't thin they are allowed to put contaminated dirt into any land fill. I think it goes to a company that will clean the contaminates out of the dirt. The dirt is then used as clean fill, and the contaminates are disposed of in an appropriate manner.
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During my stint as a conductor at Barstow CA yard in late '90s' all the dirty (oil) dirt under the retarders was dug out & sent back east. It was "burned" there & sent back "clean" to be put back. The retarders now air operated.
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The containers are loaded going to there transload yard in upstate NY . It all depends on what the contaminites are ??? Some of them were dried solids ( you know what i mean) from a waste water treatment plant, they go to a land fill .
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I had a go at creating a truck for my team track based on the picture in this link
http://www.mnjrr.com/images/IMG_1355[2].jpg
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NICE!!!!! Now you need to build some spine cars!!! I wish there was a way to build a plastics trailer??