Long-distance loadout: 800-foot inclined conveyors form heart of loop track upgrade in missouri

摘要

A "dream" upgrade for many an elevator manager involves the combination of bulk weigh loadour scale and a loop track. The attractions are pretty obvious. A high-speed loadour system allows the elevator to load shuttle trains fast enough to avoid demurrage charges and thereby gain a big freight discount. The combination of high-speed loadom with a loop track allows an entire train to be loaded without switching. Those were the fundamental attractions for Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers, Richmond, MO, says Operations Manager Tim Phillips. Phillips, who has been with the 4,500-member farmer-owned cooperative since 1984, had helped oversee the construction of the coop's first unit-train-loading facility in the mid-1990s, at Slater, MO on the Kansas City Southern Railroad. (That location does not have a loop track.)