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New rail-truck transfer facility to locate on Lehigh Railway
I am curious as to what kind of material they are hauling. I live close to the Coxton Yards about 60 miles form Wylusing and they are receiving many,many cars of materials for the energy companies who are drilling here in NEPA, are these Materials used in Fraking for gas and oil?
Here’s a generic answer:
In the, at that time, the Far North of Silicon Valley in the exotic Warm Springs distr of Fremont we switched 2 R2T transfers.
Both looked about the same: covered hoppers and tank cars…chemicals, dry and liquid, and plastic pellets for the many electronics manufacturing outfits nearby.
Occasionaly, classic team-track stuff happened, like flat cars of machinery, special lumber shapes…
It might interest us that center-beam flats of lumber did not show up…
because there were parrallel unloading tracks, one up against a boundary fence, then a space for trucks then 2 tracks and a space for trucks and repeat until the single track at the other boundary fence.
So What?
Well…if only one side of a center beam is unloaded, there’s a critical loss of equilibrium…pik-up-stix.
Same stuff from a different direction…or maybe good salesmanship has taken it away from Reading, Blue Mt., and Northern?
In fact saw them haul about 10 cars of fracking sand east through Wysox enroute to Wyalusing today…
Anthony, this would most likely be sand. They may be some pipe now and then, but not much else. The Marcellus is mainly dry gas, at least to the north and east, so don’t look for tank cars of oil and condensate leaving out.
Good to see more business on the old Lehigh Valley main line.
I live in Sayre (first one in 4 generations that hasn’t worked for the LV) The Marcellus Shale has brought a boom to Bradford county.The Railroad rebirth is great to see!
RBMN should have bought the line all the way to Sayre, PA. Then they would monopolize the former LV line in PA north of Lehighton plus have more track for special excursions (they won’t run excursions on anyone else’s track anymore).