I need a smallish unloading rack and remembered driving past something that would work. I used street view in Google maps to take a look and it wasn’t there. It wasn’t until I looked at the view at different points in time that I realized it was mounted on a trailer and could be moved around.
Here are some pictures:
Is this common or is it unique to this facility?
Unique. There are restrictions against loading or unloading hazmat at many team tracks.
Not unique. We have an industry that uses a 1-ton truck with mounted platform to unload CO2 cars.
Google portable transload platforms or some similar terms.
I found mobile transloading platform returned a bunch of pictures similar to the one in the OP’s post.
There is variability between different state environmental laws and how they administer federal rules, that would involve spillage, fumes, etc. In one product photo, I noticed a drip pad under the railcar, but just a 5 gal bucket under the truck valve to catch connection drips.
Thanks.
I didn’t notice something before. This facility has two of them.
It also depends on a what you mean by “unique”. Uncommon vs. one of a kind.
There are thousands of team tracks in the US, there are probably less than a hundred that have something like that. Are there more than one? Yes. Are they at most team tracks? No.
It sure does. Amazing how many variations there are.
Looks like Walthers ethanol loading platform mounted on a a trailer. I think innovatepive design makes those trailers, can get them in 3D print form too. Simple kitbash. Hard part is finding the Walthers platform. That facility is is in south east PA mear kennet square. Mushroom country. If I remember right, that is liquid fertilizer for the mushroom farms.
shane
You are correct about the location, but I’m not sure about it being liquid fertilizer. You can’t read it well because it is through a chain link fence but this is the sign on the building:
The word Energy is clearly visible although the name of the company is not.
This sign is at the entrance:
Would they call a fertilizer facility a terminal?
yes it would be terminal. That has been the avondale terminal for as long as I can remember. actually it is a team track. They used to get boxcars and covered hoppers there. Doesn’t look they do any more. Or it is seasonal thing. It has been 8 years since I was last down that way. Looks like it. Has changed transloads goods to energy now. From the signs you posted.
I had to go look to see how it changed. The pics you posted are from gap Newport pike. That is one facility. Across the tracks off Baltimore pike is a three logistics. another trans loading facility which does have the grain unloading (a long string was in that satellite pic) as well as tank and boxcar trans loading. I never realized it was two separate facilities. I did notice a one ton truck with what looks like a fire truck type ladder. And another mobile unload apperatice.
This is how it looked in 2008:
The fact that the facility sign has the word “energy” and there is a pressurized truck in the photo above, suggests propane.
Good catch. That explains the minimalist facility with no real infrastructer other than the rail spurs.