stock_2007 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Ok this may sound odd but in the States how do they transport 'peanuts' would it be the same type of hopper car they use for grain? Told you it was odd. As always any help is very welcome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Southern Tuxedo Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 You might find some helpful information here... http://www.the-gauge...t=peanut#p87033 http://www.the-gauge...11&hilit=peanut http://www.the-gauge...=peanuts#p92685 Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_2007 Posted June 24, 2012 Author Share Posted June 24, 2012 You might find some helpful information here... http://www.the-gauge...t=peanut#p87033 http://www.the-gauge...11&hilit=peanut http://www.the-gauge...=peanuts#p92685 Mark Thank you for the links very helpful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Reading TonyS's link, one hopper carries 190,000lb of peanuts. That is some serious jars of peanut butter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reitbok Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 You might find this useful; http://www.hamptonfarms.com/about-us/ I know that severn is situated on the North Carolina & Virginia, a Railamerica line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Severn is indeed on the NCVA. The NCVA is composed of segments of Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line routes. The Seaboard bit is the 30 mile long part south from Boykins, VA (CSX interchange) down to Kelford, NC...part of the branch that went down to Lewiston NC; the ACL bit is the 15-odd mile bit from Kelford up to Ahoskie NC...actually over to Tunis, NC to serve a Nucor steel mill. The ACL line used to run from Tarboro, NC to Suffolk, VA. In the early 1950s the ACL bought a shortline to access the large papermill at Franklin, VA. The original merger Seaboard Coast Line plan was to use the Tarboro-Suffolk line to access Norfolk and to abandon the old Seaboard route from Weldon NC. That died when it was discovered the ACL bridge over the Chowan River at Tunis was found to be deficient. SCL then did some reworking of the connection at the Weldon end of the Seaboard line and it remains in service today. Off topic aside - the name Chowan is one of the oldest surviving English-given names in North America...given in 1584 by explorers from Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition. With the steel mill the NCVA trains can be fairly substantial for a short line; there's also a Perdue Farms feed mill operation (supports their chicken farms) and of course the peanuts. The trains I've seen out there can were 25-30 cars. Looking at Google there are coal barges at piers for the plant...I'm trying to figure out how they get that far up the Chowan given the two bridges at Edenton NC...but I digress. Some of my photos from my last trip out to the NCVA back in December 2000 - both the 3801 and 3808 are ex Southern Rwy GP38s with chopped noses. At Kelford, NC - note the steel plate in the bulkhead flats At Aulander, NC - added some covered hoppers And at Boykins having cut off of their train Also at Boykins was this ex Santa Fe Geep with a Topeka cab In the past they've had other GP7/9 engines before being acquired by Rail America - this photo by Warren Calloway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_2007 Posted June 26, 2012 Author Share Posted June 26, 2012 Thanks for the link and the great photos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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