Eastern Railroad Discussion > Albany Nears Oil-Hub Status as 100-Car Trains Jam Port

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-24/albany-nears-oil-hub-status-as-100-car-trains-jam-port.html

Albany, New York’s capital city, may join the ranks of U.S. energy hubs such as Houston and Cushing, Oklahoma, as oil-terminal operator Global Partners LP (GLP) pushes an expansion plan after already quadrupling its capacity.

For the last two years, more oil from the Bakken shale formation has rolled 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) by rail across North Dakota and around the Great Lakes to Albany. There, companies including Global Partners and Buckeye Partners LP (BPL) load barges bound for New Jersey and New Brunswick refineries.

Albany’s importance as a link in the energy-production chain is poised to grow under Global Partners’ effort to win state permission to handle oil-sands crude and biofuels for shipping over objections of neighbors and environmental groups.


“One morning we woke up and all of a sudden there were all of these trains lined up in people’s back yards,” said Vivian Kornegay, an Albany city council member representing the community adjacent to Global Partners’ plant. “When you walk out your back door they are right there. The only thing separating the trains from the houses is a chain link fence.”

Gee, after all these years of complaining about the scarcity of oil, people want to be skeptics. I think the fracking industry is a great event in our nation's history.

This has been a game changer for Eastern railroads, for whom 900 miles is very respectable haul.

“When you walk out your back door they are right there. The only thing separating the trains from
the houses is a chain link fence.”

Yeah, those vicious, snarling, slobbering trains sitting there ready to pounce on you. Headlights glaring at you. Better stay indoors! Maybe get yer shotgun if they break loose. Better yet, call the train pound to come out and round 'em up and take 'em away...

JG



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/14 13:15 by jgilmore.

“When you walk out your back door they are right there. The only thing separating the trains from
the houses is a chain link fence.”

first off these poeple might have a short memory oil has been traveling to the Port of Albany in unit trains since the early days of TANK TRAINS in the 70s-80s-90s ... then ethanol has been going through the port for at least a decade ...

sencondly ... looking at the goo sat images and following the lines in either direction the CSX secondary to Selkirk and the CP line north from the port yard i fail to see all the residential properties where a fence is against the RofW ... besides the apt complex right at the yard i can count on my 2 hands the number of properties in the Albany area where the houses actually are lined against the railroad RofW ... the rest are seperated from the railroad by a road so the claims to be all hype ...

jgilmore Wrote:
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> “When you walk out your back door they are right
> there. The only thing separating the trains from
> the houses is a chain link fence.”
>
> Yeah, those vicious, snarling, slobbering trains
> sitting there ready to pounce on you. Headlights
> glaring at you. Better stay indoors! Maybe get yer
> shotgun if they break loose. Better yet, call the
> train pound to come out and round 'em up and take
> 'em away...
>
> JG


LOL....!!! :<) Thanks for the laugh!!

One question: Where is the "Fed Pen" for these "BAD" trains.......???????!!!!!! :<)

Boston, Mass at one time had a government yard, New Haven