The northern pier is loading articulated barges while the southern pier is loading a ship. The ships go to foreign countries. ("China received 25% of the coal, while the rest went to South Korea and the Netherlands." [gem]) I wonder to where the barges deliver the coal.
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| Satellite |
In the right background is the structure on the pier that loads the ships. We can barely see the yellow conveyor that raises the coal above the ship. Railroads used to store coal in many hoppers, now they store it in piles such as the one on the left.
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
This appears to be a photo of the pier that loads barges taken from the one that loads ships. (Actually, it is the little structure on the left that loads barges. The big structure in the middle can load ships.)
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| Andrew Lucchese, Mar 2022 |
Conveyor belts are one of the technologies that allows coal to be stored in piles instead of hoppers. It looks like the far hatch is being loaded on this ship and nothing is being loaded at the barge pier.
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| Justine jan Pesaro, Oct 2023 |
The coal loading facilities are in the background of this view. This is where I found the name "Curtis Bay Piers" for this railyard.
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| csxcurtisbayfacts |
I wondered why this railyard had its own domain name. Then I realized it was to deal with the public relations issue of polluting Curtis Bay with dust from its coal handling operation. [e.g. csxcurtisbayfacts_monitoring]
This confirms that a ship can also be loaded from what I called the "barge pier."
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| Joel Amenamen, Apr 2025 |
A closer view of the conveyor belts.
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| Kevin Lowe, Oct 2019 |
I think these three sheds house the rotary dumpers. The locomotive on the left is the mother of two slugs and the one on the right has one slug. Since the coal trains are unloaded slowly, the horsepower of a locomotive is not needed for speed so the slugs help use the horsepower for tractive effort. No train is being unloaded in this scene.
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| Kevin Lowe, Oct 2019 |
The conveyor emerging from under the ground to the left of the sheds reinforces my opinion that the sheds house the unloaders.
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| Satellite |
This video is about the Cumberland Yard. However, while they talk about the Cumberland Yard supporting coal traffic to the coal terminal, they have some scenes of this coal terminal.
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| Facebook Reel |
One of the scenes is coal being dumped from a hopper.
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| Same Reel @ 0:18 |
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| 1957/60 Curtis Bay Quad @ 24,000 |
This view no longer exists because the Francis Scott Key Bridge no longer exists since a ship allided with it. This terminal would be one of the several terminals in the Port of Baltimore that could not receive or send ships while they were removing the bridge remnants from the shipping channel.
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| Mielsine Infante, May 2023 |
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