by Guest » April 23, 2024, 9:08 pm
Jared wrote: ↑April 23, 2024, 7:15 pm
I'm curious when Coal has been hauled south instead of north? Normally one would load coal in Erie and then head north with it to whatever destination needs it. I wonder if there's a massive pile that is not being used up in Superior?
Jared, there were some tests with low-sulphur coal in the early 1970s after the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. At first, coal was unloaded by hopper cars into one of the Great Northern Ore Docks in Superior, with cars having loaded in the Powder River Basin.
Planning for the large movement of low-sulphur coal for Detroit Edison was planned before the Energy Crisis of October 1973, but Burlington Northern and Detroit Edison started the construction of the SMET in 1974 and it was ready for operation in May 1976.
American Steamship in January 1974 ordered four thousand footers for the low sulphur coal trades from Bay Shipbuilding, but with a severe recession in 1974/75, ASC transferred two of the thousand-footers to Bethlehem Steel.
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I'm curious when Coal has been hauled south instead of north? Normally one would load coal in Erie and then head north with it to whatever destination needs it. I wonder if there's a massive pile that is not being used up in Superior?
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Jared, there were some tests with low-sulphur coal in the early 1970s after the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970. At first, coal was unloaded by hopper cars into one of the Great Northern Ore Docks in Superior, with cars having loaded in the Powder River Basin.
Planning for the large movement of low-sulphur coal for Detroit Edison was planned before the Energy Crisis of October 1973, but Burlington Northern and Detroit Edison started the construction of the SMET in 1974 and it was ready for operation in May 1976.
American Steamship in January 1974 ordered four thousand footers for the low sulphur coal trades from Bay Shipbuilding, but with a severe recession in 1974/75, ASC transferred two of the thousand-footers to Bethlehem Steel.