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Re: SP Coal at Pinole
Author: Sam Reeves
Date: 07-24-2008 - 23:21

Carol L. Voss Wrote:
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> Sam Reeves Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The Permanente and Davenport unit coal train
> rolls
> > by Pinole, California in January of 1999.
> > Undoubtedly this train is much smaller today
> since
> > the cement plant at Permanente no longer takes
> > coal to fire their kilns.
> >
>
> Sam, are you saying that they are now firing the
> kilns with natural gas instead of coal??? I know
> they have had that capacity for many years.
> (remember, we have been gone from there since
> 1999 and yardmaster Russ has retired and moved to
> LA so I have no "inside source" anymore) :-)
> C.

Not gas, but at last count they were firing with coke hauled in by truck. The Permanente Local has been down to just a few cars and a single loco.

Sam Reeves
Pacific Grove, CA
Sam Reeves Photography

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  SP Coal at Pinole Sam Reeves 07-24-2008 - 15:21
  Re: SP Coal at Pinole Carol L. Voss 07-24-2008 - 19:31
  Recommended reading . 07-24-2008 - 20:41
  Re: SP Coal at Pinole Sam Reeves 07-24-2008 - 23:21
  Re: SP Coal at Pinole Freericks 07-25-2008 - 09:47
  Re: SP Coal at Pinole Carol L. Voss 07-25-2008 - 10:44


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