10-21-2012, 02:00 AM
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Too lazy to set a custom title
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Boonies
Posts: 12,860
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Originally Posted by B.Barnato
What am I looking at? Is that your dildo case?
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Probably not this:
http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1980/80-11/ortner.html
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When Southern's unit coal train moved smartly over the trestle at Georgia Power Company's Plant Wansley on October 15, the operation was normal - except in one respect. One of the hoppers on the 98-car unit train being unloaded at the plant near Newnan, Ga., was not red-but blue.
That 100-ton hopper was the 10,000th Ortner rapid discharge car produced since Ortner Freight Car Company delivered the first prototype nearly two decades ago. Southern owns more than 900 rapid discharge cars.
Robert C. Ortner, Ortner president, christened the blue hopper with a bottle of champagne. Also on hand for the christening ceremony were Harold H. Hall, SR president; Charles F. Whitmer, vice president of engineering for Georgia Power; and Joseph L. Ortner, Ortner vice president.
Plant Wansley has coal-burning steam units with a total capacity of 1,730 megawatts. Passing over the plant's 900-foot long trestle, rapid discharge cars unload their coal in motion. Doors in the bottom of the cars are activated electrically.
Unloading a train of rapid discharge cars takes 30 minutes to an hour as opposed to four hours or longer for other unloading systems. Southern developed the unit train concept in 1960. Unit trains shuttle back and forth between mines and power plants. The first unit trains, composed of aluminum gondolas, went to power plants with rotary dumping facilities. Today, Southern has 14 unit coal trains on line; six in immediate prospect; and several others in longer range planning.
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