GRAVEL TRAVELS BY RAIL - AT LOWEST COST

A 30-car unit train of Rapid Discharge hopper cars is used to supply gravel to a Denver, Colo., paving company. The train makes a five-hour, 86-mile round trip over Burlington Northern to the pit for loading and return to the elevated unloading trestle at Western Paving Company. Thirty trucks operating nine hours daily and consuming over 2,000 gallons of fuel would be required to perform the same function as the train which consumes only 400 gallons of fuel. The train, trestle and loading facility were designed as a system.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Murphy-Richter Publishing Company

  20 North Wacker Driver
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Publication Date: 1975-7

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 45-46
• Serial:
  • Progressive Railroading
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Trade Press Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-0817
  • Serial URL: http://www.progressiverailroading.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Analysis; Costs; Energy consumption; Fuel consumption; Unit trains
• Identifier Terms: BNSF Railway
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Energy requirements
• Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Freight Transportation; Geotechnology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099831
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1975 12:00AM