Western Railroad Discussion > Carr Loadout

Wanted to have a look at the Carr loading facility, instead I got a Laurel and Hardy comedy show from the MOW hi-railer. MOW was getting ready to work on the tracks in the Carr area. As I drove up to the crossing a hi-railer was being put on the tracks. Start off down the rails, get a foot and stop, get out, go around to adjust the wheels. Driver takes off again, wheels still not on, gets out to adjust again, driver gets out wanders back to talk. Gets back in, wheels still not on, gets out and adjusts. Driver wanders off again to talk at somebody else. Traffic is backing up at the grade crossing, flag man has growing smirk on face. MOW machines stacking up behind hi-railer. The height of incompetence is sinking to new lows. Finally they get hi-railer on and head down the tracks.

The loading terminal was not accessible so I settled for a pic from a distance.


Thanks for looking

john

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Uhm, Carr where?? Pretty easy to assume Union Pacific, but that only narrows it down to Texas, California, or Colorado....<g>

lowwater Wrote:
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> Uhm, Carr where?? Pretty easy to assume Union
> Pacific, but that only narrows it down to Texas,
> California, or Colorado....


If I'm not mistaken, Wyoming. I thought you would guess that it isn't California or Colorado.

This Carr is in Northern Colorado...

Is this the loadout? http://goo.gl/maps/hTRZb Note locomotives near each end. Your pic and the Google Maps aerial look pretty basic, I was expecting more infrastructure. Bing Maps shows a single track. Did someone bootleg a tap on the pipeline, and Carr is it? 8>)

mapboy

This facility at Carr, Co is a crude loadout facility. This started out as a gravel loadout when they were Building DIA outside of Demver. I believe the loads go south to Texas.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

I lucked out last August and was fortunate to get a quick, escorted tour of the oil load-out facility at Carr, CO ... yes the property is owned by L. G. Everist, Inc and it was the primary supplier of gravel for the construction of the DIA airport runways ... they added an oil load-out facility in the summer of 2012 for trucked in oil production from the Denver Basin (Niobrara Formation "shale oil") because they had an existing siding and the area is "off radar" ... i.e., not many negative voices in Carr and, it is on private ground; and obviously there is a profit motive. So here are a couple of quick images ... sorry I'm no pro on power units etc, but the pictures should be worth a thousand words (+/-, lol) ... Photo 1: tank truck - tank car transfer facility; Photo 2: detail shot of the transfer facility; Photo 3: one of L.G Everist's power units that ferries the oil unit trains to the UP Greeley mainline with a portion of the unit train in the background. Last August they were moving at least one, 100(?) car unit train per week. This is my first "real" post but I hope to become an active an active participant to TO ...

Enjoy!

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

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Odyssey Wrote:
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> I lucked out last August and was fortunate to get
> a quick, escorted tour of the oil load-out
> facility at Carr, CO ... yes the property is owned
> by L. G. Everist, Inc and it was the primary
> supplier of gravel for the construction of the DIA
> airport runways ... they added an oil load-out
> facility in the summer of 2012 for trucked in oil
> production from the Denver Basin (Niobrara
> Formation "shale oil") because they had an
> existing siding and the area is "off radar" ...
> i.e., not many negative voices in Carr and, it is
> on private ground; and obviously there is a profit
> motive. So here are a couple of quick images ...
> sorry I'm no pro on power units etc, but the
> pictures should be worth a thousand words (+/-,
> lol) ... Photo 1: tank truck - tank car transfer
> facility; Photo 2: detail shot of the transfer
> facility; Photo 3: one of L.G Everist's power
> units that ferries the oil unit trains to the UP
> Greeley mainline with a portion of the unit train
> in the background...
> Odyssey
> Evergreen, CO

Thanks for the info and pix! I was wondering what the covered hoppers were for, as seen in the Google Maps aerial pix. I now realize those are the buffer cars.

mapboy

The loaded trains go south to Texas? From Denver south do they stay on UP or transfer to BNSF?