I took this photo in Streator IL. What is most likely going on here? I assume the truck is taking something out of the covered hopper. But what? Fertilizer? Is it sucked out?
https://500px.com/photo/1034647640/railroads2106-37-by-kudzutraveler
Something like this happens regularly in Erie, PA on the section of the Buffalo & Pittsburgh that parallels the east end of the Bayfront Connector in Erie. String of covered hoppers parked with a gravel apron; trucks come and go as they please with relatively easy access to any given car.
I assumed the transloading was done assisted by compressed air.
MY suggestion: Ask, Shadow the Cat’s Owner… Streator, IL is ,right up there in her ‘neck of the woods’.[bow]
I think she is/ or was, also in that dry,bulk tanker, and liquid transport kind of business (?) If my old ‘Dispatcher’s’ [sigh] memory serves me…
Shadow’s Owner, if you know what’s going on in the photo, I’d love to hear what you can share with us.
LO, assuming you have a full sized print at your disposal, what does the text on the truck’s door say?
Luckey Transportation.
Their website notes that they have vacuum trucks and plastic pellets is one of the commoditys they haul.
They also have a number of transfer sites, like the one in the picture.
Based on the construction of the tank on the truck in the picture, I’m going with it being a vacuum truck.
tree, I think you nailed it.
LOL, I was gonna ask how you managed to decypher that, but just now noticed the “zoom” arrows…my bad.
That’s how we learn!
There’s a man in the cab, actually. I meant to lighten that area up a tad. I may do that and re-post that shot. I had never before seen an operation like that.
CO, there are virtually never prints involved. Most of my shots exist only as hi res digital files, and lower res ones are made from the masters. (The shots I’ve posted to that site are 1500 pixels on the long dimension, and the files are greatly compressed. My masters are 3600 on the long dimension and are not compressed, as web JPEGs are.) Once in a blue moon I print one, frame it, hang it on the wall. Very infrequently.
Back when I was working, the clients worked from digital files. Most images were bound for offset printing in publications, or used on the web.
Portrait and wedding shooters do sell prints, a huge part of their business. But I was commercial/editorial/stock.
Slightly altered version:
https://500px.com/photo/1034647640/railroads2106-37-by-kudzutraveler
That is a transload of either plastic particles or a petroleum based product, probably from the Houston petrochemical area to a storage in transit yard in Streator. The product is off loaded into pneumatic trailers (Luckey Transportation is a Streator, Il based carrier) for final delivery to end user somewhere in the midwest.
There are several of these type of operations in the Joliet, Il area with sizeable trucking fleets providing final mile (several hundred final mile actually) to destination. Why not ship all the way by rail? Often the consignee does not have rail service or does not require an entire hopper car inventory.
Ed
It’s kind of like LCL for bulk commodities.
So, did you edit the thread title yourself, or did it change all by itself? Just curious because the apostrophe seems to have “de-html-ized” itself since viewing this thread last night
Now I’m seeing “What's going on?”
CSX has terminals in many of the larger cities that it serves under the Transflo banner.
[quote user=“CSX”]
CSX has a variety of services to help you connect with our rail network, even if you do not have a rail served facility.
Our Industrial Development team can assist you with building or expanding a rail-served facility.
CSX subsidiary TRANSFLO can move bulk commodities from rail to truck or truck to rail. They handle more than 300 product types, including chemicals, plastics, ethanol, food-grade products, dry bulk and waste materials.
Combine the economies of rail with the flexi
Was the truck made up of a single rigid frame, or is that tank part of a trailer? With the perspective it’s hard to tell If I’m seeing a dept illusion, or not.
If a single rigid frame, it reminds me of the vacuum units that our local street dept uses to clear storm sewers.
About the thread title morph:
This is something that just happens on this site; has for a long time. Always the same characters, interestingly. Usually it appears initially, but this time it hoboed a ride between terminals. There’s no known cure for it. It’s a cancer.
My sense of perspective strongly leans to it being a trailer.
Wow, I’ve seen stuff like this happen on an edit, or even as part of an original post, but I’ve never before seen it “melt down” on it’s own where it originally was fine but them became corrupt all on it’s own.
Truly, I’ve never seen one site have SO MUCH trouble with their software.
You’re missing the blower that is behind the trailer that is mounted on a small trailer that gets moved around to help load our resins. It sucks them out of the hopper cars then blows them into the trailer. For our blending we have a pair of wrecked covered hoppers that are mounted on steel stands at our warehouse plus a 40 foot trailer that can blend the resins as needed. The little guy is used for straight single use. It’s powered by a 5.9 liter Cummins 12 valve. The big one however uses a slightly bigger motor. It has a 425 Caterpillar engine out of a retired truck from the fleet.