Hi all, I’m looking for information and/or pictures or links to the general area of Alberta, Canada. I would like to model sulfur loading in Alberta. I have many Sultran gondola cars from Intermoutain but have yet to see how it is loaded. I would like to see how it is done so I can decide if I will model the loading or off-loading of sulfur on my layout.
Thank you all for any help you can offer.
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I just ripped through a pile of sites and most photos show the sulphur AFTER it has been loaded, I don’t think it is very complex method, will try to hunt some more info down.
His original post said Looking for . . . He edited the post after my reply. I realize Alberta is a province - even though I once dated an Alberta!! No disrespect meant & I don’t think the orig poster took it that way.[:)]
Tatans and Ivan, no harm done guys, thanks Ivan for the hint.
Tatans, I had the same luck as you. Idiot that I am, I lived in Alberta for 2 years and never took the opportunity to go to any of these places. I know that there is a facility near Rocky Mountain House that CN services and they also feed another location north of Edmonton. CP service 2 locations closer to Calgary.
Markpierce, thanks for the site, very usefull info there.
I’m trying to design a facility that I could maybe model on my HO scale, so I need the type of building with a loader(how it is loaded in the gondolas) and track schematics, balloon track or several sidings?
Thanks everyone, keep the info coming. I am saving everything to a file in my “layout” folder.
Not as helpful as I thought because I was thinking of liquified sulphur loaded into tank cars (the common way to transport sulphur) rather than dry sulphur in gondolas (may I presume they were covered to protect the load?).
You would be surprised just how many gas plants(the sulphur is extracted from the natural gas) are in Alberta, I was amazed at the amount of very large facilities and I worked in the patch for a 100 years.
I do not know how they are loaded, but on the west coast the open top cars are dumped using a rotary dumper. I remember when I lived in Calgary seeing the unit Sultrain pass below my office window once a week. As an aside, at the oil company I worked for at the time, we occasional drilled sour gas wells primarily for their H2S content, from which the elemental sulphur would be derived.