Yards: The links in the list below provides more information including satellite links.
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| Viral Media posted BNSF SEATTLE MAINLINE North of King Street station in Seattle is the 155 miles long BNSF Scenic Subdivision (Seattle-Everett-Wenatchee). South of the station is the BNSF’s 177-mile Seattle Subdivision, connecting Seattle with Portland, Oregon. Union Pacific also uses the line via trackage rights, making it the most heavily trafficked rail line in Washington State. Looking at the map top (to Everett) to Bottom (to Tacoma): • Terminal 86 Grain Facility [see below] [See Seattle Harbor Railyards for the following yards.] • BNSF SIG Yard Seattle Int. Gateway • Port of Seattle – Harbor Island The four container terminals cover over 500 acres • Union Pacific Argo Yard • BNSF Boeing Field Yard |
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| Viral Media posted Trains Transport Trash Over 300 Miles Pacific Northwest trash is transported by rail to two landfill locations in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and Oregon. For over 30 years Union Pacific and BNSF hauled trash from Seattle to the landfills. Six trains a day or more use the BNSF Seattle Subdivision (Union Pacific has trackage rights) to move the trash. The Cascade Range receives over 100 inches of rain on the west side. East of the mountains along the Columbia River Gorge are the “dry side” receives little rainfall, where the regional landfills are located. The arid region is ideal for a landfill because the geology helps prevent runoff from entering aquifer. The BNSF trash trains assemble trains from nine different Pacific Northwest transfer stations and haul it to the Roosevelt Regional Landfill operated by Republic Services, 140 miles east of Vancouver, WA. On average the containers weigh around 48 tons, with 300 double -stack containers per train. The two daily trash trains originate in BNSF yards in Everett and Seattle. Seattle also sends trash to the Columbia Ridge landfill on Union Pacific Railroad. Washington Waste Systems transports and dispose waste for the city of Seattle. Up to 140 containers are loaded onto double-stack well car in Seattle UP Argo Yard for transport to the landfill. On alternate days three times a week, Union Pacific transports seventy-car trains Columbia Ridge on BNSF tracks, then at Portland uses the UP mainline to the Columbia Ridge landfill. One day a week a UP train runs from Blakeslee Junction, WA to the landfill. Sam Spink: H-EVEROO garbage load Everett delta yard to Roosevelt republic services, H-INBROO garbage load Seattle interbay yard to Roosevelt republic services, O-SEGL garbage load Seattle Argo yard to waste management Gilliam county Oregon (Arlington) Mark Meyer: Sam Spink And some garbage in the U-EVEROO comes all the way from Vancouver, BC. Bruce Moberg: The BNSF trains as well are only around 70 to 80 cars a day not 150 like the story says . sometimes they do run bigger trins like 105 cars. And I believe the UP runs their train daily now as well. [Unfortunately, the error rate for Viral Media is high.] Franklin Bullwheel: They used to have a garbage train that ran through central Oregon from the Bay area on BNSF track to the same area. Ken Kesterson: Why don’t they keep their trash on western Washington. Quit putting it in eastern Washington. Not our trash. Arlo Savage Arlo Savage: Ken Kestersonthe Roosevelt landfill is built on top of the natural geologic feature, which is a large valley composed mostly of limestone. The limestone base helps prevent any leech water from entering the groundwater system. The natural shape of the valley was conductive to a long-term (100+ years) landfill with minimal overhead cost on site development. Wayne Thompson: Ken Kesterson Your Politicians want it. Jobs, tipping fees, taxes that fund your Counties. They are fighting over who gets it. |
Pier 86 Grain Terminal
This is a good view showing the modern design of a minimally enclosed headhouse across the silos. The open air design reduces the risk of a grain dust explosion.
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| 1 of 36 photos via lahosken_36views |
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| 1 of several photos via lahosken_port86 |
"To some, the massive white grain terminal is an eyesore that blocks waterfront views from Elliott Bay to Queen Anne; to others it is a towering monument to trade in the Northwest: Last year [written 1999], more than 46 million bushels of grain from America's heartland flowed though its conveyors onto huge ships bound for places like Japan and China." The port built the facility for $14m in 1970. Cargill was still leasing it in 1999, but antitrust regulations caused Cargill to move out. [SeattleTimes]
In 2016, it was labelled the Lewis Dreyfus Grain Terminal. [UrbanSketchers]
"The terminal was completed in 1970 and is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle. Once the shipping vessels arrive, the grain can be loaded to them via twin 48” conveyor belts at a max rate of 3,000 tons per hour." [TotallySeattle]
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| PortSeattle [TotallySeattle above appears to be wrong. This indicates that Louis Dreyfus Corp operates the terminal. But I could not find this location on their map.] |
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| HistoryLink, Courtesy Port of Seattle "M.V. Liu Lin Hai loading grain at Terminal 86, Seattle, April 1979" The first freighter to be loaded arrived on Nov 10, 1970 and received 8,000 tons of grain. |
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