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We used a program called batch master. It would tell us allowable weight to load at. It used rfid tags on the cars to give us specs. The hump on top would settle down during transport and fill a lot of the side voids.

NS 390750 is an RD4 design car and are both Rotory, and bottom dischage equipped.

Not sure what that means but very seldom did I deal with a car that was tagged not to load.

@@smokey222mktn That means each car is loaded with 1/6 of it's capacity left as air space.

@@jasonwilde197 we loaded each car to Max capacity weight wise.

@@smokey222mktn I was mistaken then. I've seen the cars fully loaded to the top end to end. Maybe that was a different type of cargo. You guys know what you are doing. Respect. o/

@@jasonwilde197 no problem. Haha. I didn’t know if I was missing something.

And a great video, at that!

It didn’t. Those cars have RFID tags on them. When the train pulls in it it registers and then tells you what each car is calling for. Once they hit target weight they are done.

Do you have video of it? Would love to see it. Is it on the coal page or your order? I heard a belt company was using some of the area to work.

Ka-Boom

Dumbass. Even the people running the scam don't call it that anymore. Impressive how idiotic your comment is, to think coal dust being dumped into a railcar contributes to "global warming". The evidence shows cooling anyhow, all the predictions have been dead wrong, record snows, polar ice thicker than ever. Please, please say something truly stupid like global warming is causing record freezing temps.

Its oil and coal that advanced society to where it is today. How about embracing the fossil fuel industry. We'd be nowhere without them.

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I think it's for power station consumption. Burns efficiently with very little waste.

nlo114 every car was preset on load amount by RFID tags and ns computers. Some would fill all the way and almost spill over. On a 100 ton car I doubt the 5 ton offset up the ramp would be enough to be unevenly loaded. Now if it stopped 2/3 of the way through the car, I would have to agree. Been to many plants and all load the same way.

I'm slightly surprised about that. I suppose it's all about the relative density of the material. UK bulk transport is in smaller net weights, so axle-loading by weight distribution is more critical. When you read the detailed accident investigation reports involving freight carriage, they go through every aspect of the loading and distribution of the cargo, sometimes finding compounded errors that led to a failure of a part and subsequent wreck. www.gov.uk/government/publications/raib-current-investigations-register/rail-accident-investigation-branch-current-investigations It makes for interesting reading when there is no beer in the fridge:-)

Still, 1 mph faster on the indexer and the load would look prettier in the cars. :-D

the largest coal fired power plant in the west is slated for closure... R.I.P COAL INDUSTRY FUCK PEABODY COAL

That would be the Navajo Generating Station, a huge 2.25 GW power plant set to shut down in 2019. The slurry operation from the Black Mesa mine to the plant pretty much killed the aquifer everyone depended on. Now the aquifer might recover, but then locals will be unemployed. Caught between Scylla and Charybdis.

A lot of water is involved in making that happen.

the guys that were on this route liked it. they were steady and got the hours when they wanted it. the other route was a few day trip with a stay over and they didn't care for it

Maloy7800 actually met grade coal. low sulfur and lie ash. may be lifting and fact that it was cold out but coarse coal went through a crusher to size for power plant. they would blend this coal with other mines so their coal would meet quality specs.

That's a new one one me - didn't know some plants needed the coal pre-processed. A plant associated with a utility I used to work for just took the straight coal and pulverized it on side with ball mills as it made its way to the boiler. Of course, this might have been left over from when a nearby lignite mine used to conveyor its coal to the plant, before they switched to Powder River coal.

Nuclear>coal! Got it?

If you discount radioactive waste that gives you cancer and causes genetic mutations; that takes tens of thousands of years to decay into stable elements, then sure, nuclear is better than coal.

Nathan, so is cocaine in Asia and South America. Those people are even more hard working.

Stephen, let's compare the number of people who died from nuclear mutations and those who died from consumption, asthma, and various other diseases caused by coal dust around coal mines.

In the past, that applies, but today with everything from the scrubbers that clean the smoke, to the water the stops the coal dust while mining, you just can't compare the past to now. One day we will figure out cold fusion, and the waste will be clean water. People will look back and say I can't believe they used fission or coal.

No one wants coal, power utilities don't want it, steel industry only needs a very small amount and the rest of the world is moving away from coal. Go ahead, let Trump open up every closed mine in the US and mine the shit out of everything you have, and see who buy's it. You've been deluded, hoodwinked, bamboozled, lied to and run amuck. Maybe some day when you look back and say to yourself, "hey, that bastard lied to us", then, maybe, you'll wake up.

FU

Another Dumb shit of little words

Really? China has HUNDREDS of coal fired plants, and are opening more all the time with no end in sight. What world were you talking about???

So is your mom

+pecker umf What is your name?

How many cars per mile? How many tons per car?