COMPARATIVE COAL TRANSPORTATION COSTS: AN ECONOMIC AND ENGINEERING ANALYSIS OF TRUCK, BELT, RAIL, BARGE AND COAL SLURRY AND PNEUMATIC PIPELINES. VOLUME 8--YELLOW BALL RAIL

The report describes and costs the use of overage rail cars and locomotives as a gathering system for groups of small coal mines in the vicinity of existing lightly used or railbanked track. A transloader is used to establish unit train lots.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Set includes PB-274379--PB-274386. See also RRIS 18 170577, the first volume, in RRIS Bulletin 7801.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Center for Advanced Computation
  Urbana, IL  United States  61801
• Authors:
  • Rieber, M
  • Soo, S L
• Publication Date: 1977-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coal; Coal industry; Cost finding; Economic analysis; Fleet management; Freight traffic; Loading facilities; Planning; Service life; Unit trains
• Uncontrolled Terms: Obsolescence
• Old TRIS Terms: Fleet planning; Operating strategies
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00170584
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: JO166163
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1978 12:00AM