How can they deliver 50,000 BPD unloading only 15 cars per day. Don't they need to average 100 cars per day?
I’m rooting for them to succeed but the volume in all this is a bit intimidating.
I keep seeing the proposed 100 car trains being loaded every day, slamming into the reality of railroading in the eastern US.
What this proposes is much more than utility supply unit trains (where the utility owns the cars and wants to see them move.) The eastern rail lines have too many choke points for the proposed 100 cars/day.
They may have a facility that could handle 100 cars, but it is had to believe they would have a siding with that much length to accomidate 100 cars at a time. It would need to be over a mile long(70’ x 100 cars = 7000 feet).
I am only speaking from my experience as a lumber broker that very few yards can handle a spot of more than 25 cars at a time. That is a lot of real estate.