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This facility is on the CSX in Georgia. The track itself is the remnant of the Atlanta and West Point mainline connection to the Georgia Railroad's Hulsey Yard.
The Bing Bird's Eye view is here. With it, you can easily see that there is plenty of room for an entire unit train of sand. While this isn't the only LaFarge sand facility in Atlanta, this probably aids in preferential pricing for the delivery.
But when I visited in early December a few years ago, the sand stockpile was low. This was before the big economic turn down.
The conveyor in the foreground comes from the unloading pit, and moves sand over to the rotating conveyor. The conveyor in the rear simply pulls the sand over and loads it into tractor trailers.
The rotating conveyor is an interesting machine all by itself. It greatly increases the usefulness of the site, compared to a standard piler and pushing it around with loaders. Also notice the different areas on the far side of the rotating conveyor for keeping separate piles. Perhaps gravel is occasionally delivered here.
The unloading pit. Pretty simple.
The yard. The track with all the empties on it is the unloading track. The track immediately to the right is probably the old mainline. The final siding of loads is possibly the beginning of sidings/double track for the station, which isn't far in that direction. The switch in the foreground is for the disused siding for the building to the far right.
To be continued...
James
The Bing Bird's Eye view is here. With it, you can easily see that there is plenty of room for an entire unit train of sand. While this isn't the only LaFarge sand facility in Atlanta, this probably aids in preferential pricing for the delivery.
But when I visited in early December a few years ago, the sand stockpile was low. This was before the big economic turn down.
The conveyor in the foreground comes from the unloading pit, and moves sand over to the rotating conveyor. The conveyor in the rear simply pulls the sand over and loads it into tractor trailers.
The rotating conveyor is an interesting machine all by itself. It greatly increases the usefulness of the site, compared to a standard piler and pushing it around with loaders. Also notice the different areas on the far side of the rotating conveyor for keeping separate piles. Perhaps gravel is occasionally delivered here.
The unloading pit. Pretty simple.
The yard. The track with all the empties on it is the unloading track. The track immediately to the right is probably the old mainline. The final siding of loads is possibly the beginning of sidings/double track for the station, which isn't far in that direction. The switch in the foreground is for the disused siding for the building to the far right.
To be continued...
James