CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD UNIT TRAIN OPERATION COAL MINING SUPERTRAIN 42724
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2018
- This profile of Canadian Pacific's "unit train", also known as the Supertrain, dates to the 1980s. The film shows how vast amounts of coal are moved from coal mines in British Columbia to the port of Vancouver and the Superport of Roberts Bank. The film begins as coal is moved through processing plants via conveyer systems, and then stored in silos (:50). Specially designed gondola cars capable of carrying 150 tons of coal each are used. The locomotives are automatically controlled by computer (1:04) as the cars are loaded. Cars are weighed at 1:15 and simultaneously scanned. At 1:44 the train begins its 700 mile journey across the Rocky Mountains and then through B.C. on CP Rail's mainline to Vancouver. At 2:00, robot locomotives are shown operated by remote control in the middle of the train. There are 11 diesel locomotives moving the train, all coordinated through the engineer's cab, for the Rocky Mountain segment of the journey. Later the train reduces to only four locomotives as it approaches Vancouver and the Roberts Bank Terminal. At 4:30 the train approaches the ocean terminal and into the rotor dumpers where automated machinery takes over. At 5:00, cars are rotated in the dumper and out tumbles 105 tons of coal destined for Japanese steel mills. The entire train of 10,000 tons is unloaded in 4 hours. The entire cycle is 3 days. The cost of the system was $38 million dollars.
Roberts Bank Superport is a twin-terminal port facility located on the mainland coastline of the Strait of Georgia in Delta, British Columbia. Opened in 1970 with Westshore Terminals as its only tenant, Roberts Bank was expanded in 1983-84, and in June 1997 opened a second terminal, the GCT Deltaport container facility.
Part of Port of Vancouver, Roberts Bank is also known as the Outer Harbour of Canada's busiest port. Westshore is the busiest single coal export terminal in North America and is operated by the Westar Group on a long-term contract. It typically ships over 20 million tonnes of export coal a year and early in 2010 completed a $49-million equipment upgrade, bringing its capacity from 24 million to 29 million tonnes per year.
Like the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal to the southeast, Roberts Bank was built at the end of a long causeway over a shallow bank. Originally created as a 20-hectare (49-acre) pod of reclaimed land for a major coal port, it is now four times that size. In January 2010, Deltaport added a third berth and doubled its capacity. It is now one of the busiest import/export ports in North America and a major hub for container trucking companies. Roberts Bank is serviced by CN Rail, CP Rail, and BNSF Railway. Seaspan International provides tugboat services to both terminals at peninsula.
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Cool! The locomotive engineer in the video at Sparwood is Bert Josephson. He passed away several years ago.
I noticed there was no graffiti on the cars, nice to see.
I worked for CP starting in 1976. Notice the red coal cars. They didn't stay red for long. Eventually painted black for obvious reasons. The Kartrak bar codes on the side of the car were next to impossible for the reader to scan because of the dust build up.
CP had the coolest engines in the 80s
Man this really must be old if they think unit trains are so special... Nowadays you gotta look hard just to find a traditional manifest.
Its neat how they colour coded the railcars
Too bad the photographer did not go over to the Nawffik Suthun. He could have got hisseff some really cool wreck pictures over there !
MLW Power, CP Robot cars, and Angus shops vans. Can it get any better?
OMG!!!...:-O LOOK at all that coal and all these cars!!!! :-O I'm thinking of all these men & women who sacrificed their lives working deep in the underground darkness just so we can all have heat & enable machines and motors to run... The construction of this railway against the solid rocky mountain side with "just a few feet from death", and those incredible bridges & tunnels bridges!! So impressive what humans can do when they put all their energies together in the right direction. 💕 Great video, thank you!
This is early 1970s I think.
I enjoyed this id say 70s era coat train video. Another great find and presentation by Periscope
Alot has change since then
Loved this informative video for a time gone past
Should see roberts bank now!
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one step closer to skynet even for trains carrying coal across canada
Canadian Pacific Railroad unit train operation coal mining supertrain is history merge of CPKC