One thing that I've noticed after running some of the activities is that there needs to be a gantry crane at many locations. There are several tie makers and the scrap yard that have no way to get the products into the gons. Just a suggestion for your "spare" time.
Kerry
Full Version: A suggestion
Ties:
Nope. Those were typically hand-loaded in these parts some 15 years ago, or, at the most, a forklift dumped them in. At this point, there is no known tie loading on the prototoype A&M: It all seemed to disappear during the late 80's.
Scrap:
Yup. Need a crane. Was going to build one. Ran out of "spare" time.
Andre
Nope. Those were typically hand-loaded in these parts some 15 years ago, or, at the most, a forklift dumped them in. At this point, there is no known tie loading on the prototoype A&M: It all seemed to disappear during the late 80's.
Scrap:
Yup. Need a crane. Was going to build one. Ran out of "spare" time.
Andre
QUOTE(laming @ Jan 28 2005, 01:45 PM)
Ties:
Nope. Those were typically hand-loaded in these parts some 15 years ago, or, at the most, a forklift dumped them in.
Nope. Those were typically hand-loaded in these parts some 15 years ago, or, at the most, a forklift dumped them in.
Now THAT sounds like a fun job.
Kerry
Typically, regional tie producers were small-time operations. If the sawmill was at an offline location, the ties would be hauled from the small sawmill to the rail site by a flatbed truck. The truck would back up to the gondola, and the transfer begun.
There are still small "peckerwood" sawmills in the Ozarks, but of the ones that I know of, none are shipping ties.
BTW: The fellows that work(ed) those sawmills are tough as pineknots.
Andre
There are still small "peckerwood" sawmills in the Ozarks, but of the ones that I know of, none are shipping ties.
BTW: The fellows that work(ed) those sawmills are tough as pineknots.
Andre
The one line I work has several team tracks for local industries not right on the mainline. It's pretty interesting to see how they go about loading/unloading the cars with very little to help them. One team track unloads raw stacks of 2 x 4's and pressure treats them a couple blocks away. They drive their large fork lift down the road to grab the stacks. Another team track has a customer that loads logs. They have a staging area on one side of the main and they use an old military boom truck to load the wood. Farther down the line construction debris is becoming a huge busines for the railroad. They are buying and leasing as many old woodchip hoppers that they can find and press them into this new service. They stack old containers in a u shape next to the track and dump trucks fill it with trash. Large loaders use them as ramps to load the chip hoppers. A large "migrant" workforce is employed for the loading and the covering of the cars. Good business for the railroad.
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