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I would like to know more about the temporary tram roads used in the coastal plains of the south for harvesting (and nearly decimating) the long leaf yellow pine. This would have been after the arrival of the railroads around 1900 to areas from southern Georgia to east Texas. Those tram roads...

And that the ‘artist’ may never see it again after the effort.

I was involved in the research and planning of a new poultry feed mill beginning about 10 years ago. Our old mill and its rail siding could only take 10 hopper cars of corn at a time. We got the “single“ car rate from CSX. About $3600 per car, Midwest to NE Georgia. Basically $1.00 per bushel...

I’m with your buddy. I’ll wait with him until you all get back. 😳😱

Excellent explanation of the event. Long but worth a listen.

A local hamburger joint/pool hall did something similar. The owner would go out and feed the parking meters with dimes. They sold a little beer too. 😄. Draft by the gallon milk jug $3.00. Nasty when it went flat.

They needed stronger tie straps for this mishap. 4,200 new Kia’s and Hyundai’s destroyed. Largest maritime salvage operation in US history. Golden Ray auto carrier near St. Simons Island, Ga...

Company built, owns and maintains the 1 mile long loop siding. CSX basically hands the locomotives’s keys to a properly trained mill employee or sub. They have 15 hours to unload the 90 hopper cars otherwise they lose $300 per car discount. (2016 numbers).

I posted earlier about my employer before retiring building a new poultry feed mill. The mill takes a 90 car unit train of corn about every 12 days. (325,000 bushels). The mill has total corn storage capacity of one million bushels. One reason for the extra capacity is to buffer out supply...

Some steel ties too in suitable places like sidings and turnouts. Any single steel tie can function properly for 50 years before needing repairs, compared to just 12-15 years for a wood equivalent. Spent steel ties can then be recycled as scrap or repaired with minor welding and returned to...

Could you imagine the size of the DPF that would be required today on it? :rolleyes:

An older coworker told of how feed ingredients (corn, soybean meal, etc.) shipped by rail were once released to the buyer. The railroad would notify the feed mill manager that, say, 15 hopper cars of corn had arrived at the nearby rail yard. The mill manager would then take a company check to...

My understanding at the time was that the Gold Kist company owned grain hopper cars were not necessarily used exclusively by my employer. They were sort of out there in the pool of rail cars and whenever they were used by others we received a rental or usage payment. I’m not sure “pool car” is...

I worked for a company that had about 200 private cars built back in the 70’s. GOLD KIST. Hopper cars for hauling soy and grain. I handled the payments from the RR for when others used the cars well into the late 80’s. I forget the term for that. Pool car? Here’s a model replica. Also a yard...

Cog or rack railway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway

I found the TV series Men Who Built America interesting. It ties in how the early railroads, oil, and steel industries were interconnected. Barons Vanderbilt, Carnegie, JP Morgan & Rockefeller.

Yes a major expansion for the company. The cost of the loop siding was about $4 million IIRC, mostly due to grading to get it completely level. Finding a suitable site took a while. Criteria included: be near the middle of our service area, reasonably flat 100+ acres for sale, and be on one of...