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Calvin wrote:

 

I would be hard pressed to explain why you would have to run a 40 car empty train in lieu of 120 emptys. ( I mean were talkin railroad here, not streetcar line)(aint we?)

They run 80 car loads/emptys over this piece of spaghetti not far from where I type. (Power plant at mount Storm)

 

 


 Clavalin said, "Empty train".  



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Snippy wrote:

What is this "empty coal train" that you write about?


 No..it was a manifest train of a lot of lumber and some empties.

BN got interchange from the CP and the BCH at Sumas 7-days

a week and its been a very productive arrangement for a long

time but the last few years no so much but enough to keep

this flow going. There will be no more 173 car trains on the

Sumas Sub ever again.



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Uke wrote:

It's all but impossible ta run ANY six-axle power up, or down the Sumas sub. Empty coal... Empty hoppers can return ta the rejoin the main at Burlington, but in short strings* pulled by Geeps only!

The 'stringers' might be a third of a full-length unit coal train*. Sumas has been CWR (continuous welded rail) for at least the past twelve years. And the roadbed has been upgraded for 286-K cars. The weakest point? The old timber bridge which crosses SR-20 just outside 'downtown' Wooley World...

*Interesting idea, but more trouble than it's worth for 2LARRCO... All that extra switching, crew hours, power diversions, etc. They prefer keeping entire trains (empty/full) moved as one... From mine to destination, and return. Efficiency. Uncle Warren likes that!


 Liar! Courtney says, "Any and All!"

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/08/20/3811667_bnsf-east-county-tracks-a-good.html?sp=/99/101/&rh=1

 

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By the time GPT/2LARRCO builds the 'coal' terminal, Uncle Warren will be stone cold dead. And in the ground tu. So it won't matter either way.

Coal's gonna be shipped ta China, India, Korea, or Japan through Canuckistan (Roberts Bank) Vancouver, British Columbia. And the 'arrangement' in place right now will continue to be.

The trains will be yarded across the border just outside New Westminster, and crews could pick up an empty set and start the return trip via Sumas. And why not? Since everything has already been upgraded, and Courtney sez "Any and All..." Hey, this might lead to 2LARRCO sending excess iron ore ta China, India, et al as well. And Buckethead might be eligible for a bonus in 2015!



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