Friday, November 25, 2022

Ceredo, WV: Kanawha River Terminal Rail-to-Barge

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Jim Pearson Photography posted
Kanawha River Terminal Railroad locomotive 1100 (GP40-2LW, built as Canadian National #9505 to Kanawha River Terminal #1100) and 1200 (GP40-2LW, built as Canadian National #9638) to Kanawha River Terminal #1100), work on moving a coal train at Ceredo, West Virginia, on November 2nd, 2022, at Kanawha River Terminal (Ceredo Dock) facility. 
According to their website: The Kanawha River Terminal Railroad is a switching operation serving the Kanawha River Terminal (Ceredo Dock) facility, situated along the Ohio River west of Huntington, West Virginia. The railroad operation handles interchange with Norfolk Southern and CSK Transportation. 
The terminal has an annual throughput capacity of nearly 20 million tons and is equipped with a rotary dumper and a barge loader, the latter of which provides volume coal loading to barges. The facility and the switching railroad are owned by SunCoke Energy. A variety of first and second-generation motive power is maintained at an engine house in Ceredo, West Virginia, adjacent to the terminal.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 200.


Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's post
I spotted six locomotives and a tow boat. (There is another locomotive further east working a cut of cars.) And it looks like they can load three barges at the same time.
 https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...
(Actually, they can load two barges and unload one barge at the same time. http://s2.q4cdn.com/.../Fact-Sheet-Kanawha-River-Coal...)

Ceredo Coal Terminal
 • Located at mile 314.5 on the Ohio River
 • 18 million tons of annual throughput capacity
 • Rail and barge access
 • 200-barge fleeting capacity
 • 1,100-railcar track capacity
 • Nine stacking tubes with Merrick feeders for maximum blending flexibility
 • 500-ton/hour barge-to-ground offload system and two barge loadouts for maximum efficiency
 • Simultaneous ground-to-barge or rail-to-barge loading
Our coal logistics terminals have the collective capacity to blend and transload 40 million tons of coal each year and are strategically located to reach Gulf Coast, East Coast, Great Lakes and international ports. We are a leading provider of coal handling services in the Ohio River Valley Basin and Gulf Coast region with more than 30 years of experience receiving, blending, storing and transloading thermal and metallurgical coals.
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The B&O used to run north of the C&O route with its own bridge across the Big Sandy river. But it was abandoned by a 1985 topo map.
1904 Kenova Quad @ 125,000

This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River 

This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River

This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River

This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River


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