Lines of black-colored tank cars wait in a rail-loading facility in New Town (North Dakota).Very, very interesting.
There, semis loaded with Bakken crude from the oil patch in western North Dakota arrive, where the oil goes into shipper-owned tank cars and Canadian Pacific Railway transports them.
"They come out of the rail-loading facility in 80-car chunks," explained Will Wangerin, superintendent of CP's Harvey Division. "But we run 104-car trains. Usually we'll pull them out and we'll stage them," he said.
He said the trucks loaded with crude oil pull up alongside the rail cars on the tracks. "They load them right from the truck and pump them into the tank cars," he explained.
CP now has up to 40 rail-loading facilities across its network in the U.S. and Canada. That number includes a recently opened rail-loading facility in Estevan, Sask. Bakken oil from Saskatchewan is moved through the U.S. Midwest, including North Dakota, U.S. West Coast and eastern Canada to reach refineries in Canada and the United States.
Compare this story with a typical hand-wringing story in The Dickinson Press -- now the editor is worried about fracking sand in Wisconsin. In fact the story is so depressing, I won't even link it here. If interested, I've linked it at Frack Sand Central for those who are truly interested. But again, a typical Dickinson Press story.
Bruce, please don't be bad mouthing the Dickinson Press. It is my only source for fire place starter paper and paper to put on my shop floor for oil spills. I cant imagine gathering kindiling and spending money for floor dry, should they close their doors due to lack of readership
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, if you go to this link you will find why The Dickinson Press reads like a Minnesota liberal newspaper:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/54313/publisher_ID/6/
When you get there, "blow up" the image:
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/image/id/15004/headline/coverage/publisher_ID/6/
It turns out The Dickinson Press is essentially a Minnesota newspaper -- at least its editorial slant.