The Final Stage- Coal Car Loading

[haggis240]

Did they say the found two girls in one of the trucks? Dead or alive?

[PAmining]

Dead. People dump all kinds of garbage in rail cars

[iRECKONER]

is this a PPLX train ? Oh wait nevermind I see the BPRR toward the end. Buffalo Pittsburgh I assume.

Thanks!

[FedotenkoFan17]

Very cool video, we have local coal trains that serve a power plant in Tampa, FL.. This is a very neat prospective of where coal trains start their journey and how they are loaded.. We have collected quite a bit of coal from the tracks..

[PAmining]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. 

[69rd96]

Hats off to anyone who can build an N or HO scale model railroad replica of this loading method, Go knows I tried.

[pwalpar]

good video, Ive seen it unloaded many times  this is the first time i saw them being loaded however

[PAmining]

On smaller operations sometimes the cars are loaded by a wheel loader, but at a big operation like this it's faster to load the cras from a silo.

[PAmining]

On smaller operations sometimes the cars are loaded by a wheel loader, but at a big operation like this it's faster to load the cars from a silo.

[canvids1]

very interesting Justin

its nice to see something that most folks would never see in their life time

[PAmining]

Thanks. A lot of these big coal plants do not allow any cameras, so it is a pretty exclusive view from inside.

[beckymhad]

Wow that is some pretty cool stuff. We don't have anything to do with coal around here, have never even seen a piece of it.

[PAmining]

Thanks. In the United States, coal provides about 45% of the electricty. It's a big industry

[jix177]

Great video - that's a far cry from those small mines like Alfred Brown! Does the guy working the chute also control the train or is the train driver just moving forward at a slow speed? Here in the Irish midlands we have the inverse in a peat burning station where trains arrive with cars loaded with peat and unload it (they actually roll upside down to do so). The locomotive disconnects and the cars attach to a device beside the track which pulls the set along, stopping and starting as needed.

[PAmining]

Oh yeah these mines are part of some of the largest mining companies in the nation! The operator inside the silo controls the chute and coal feed. The engineer is keeping the train moving at about .4mph so the cars can get loaded. Once he has a full load, he'll be signaled by the controller and then it's full steam ahead to the power plant.

[ComputerTechTV]

Sweet video stuff you do not see everyday!

[PAmining]

Thanks. This is a pretty exclusive view

[lowboy1one1]

Awesome vid!

[PAmining]

Thanks!

[Bobtrucker123]

Great video.

Kyle

[KHVEDOR]

Interesting process!