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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Double Sidings

We have 5 sets of double sidings, coal mine, refinery, gravel pit, Coastal Oil, and Zorra Cement Warehouse. The second siding is only used during switching. Would it be too confusing to designate them siding 1 and siding 2? That way we could deliver and pick up at both sidings. To help keep it clearer, track 1 at Coastal Oil and the Refinery could only receive box cars and siding 2 tank cars. We could move the coal bunker/unloader to siding 1 at Zorra Cement Warehouse, and increase the coal hopper deliveries there. This would help decluter the yards as there would be 10 to 15 more cars in these sidings. Another idea to think about. We could reroute the ore car siding to join the lowere mainline between Lincoln and Jutland, eliminating the steep grade. As a bonus the turnout and about a foot of track could be left at the Springbank Station for freight deliveries there. I don't think there is enough siding space at Shell Ind. in Herons Landing. We could swap it and Bingham The Mover, Or Country Feed and Seed.

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