Eastern Railroad Discussion > Enbridge Eddystone Rail Company New Oil Facility

i haven't checked this area in about a month or more and found work moving along at a feverish pace ... it'll be interesting to see how they setup the oil unloading tracks around the former coal generating station ... the plant switched to gas more than 2 years ago

Photo #1: work progressing at the former coal fired Eddystone Power Plant in the coal hopper holding yard tracks ...

Photo #2: the rails are stacked and ties are mostly removed in the coal hopper holding tracks ...

Photo #3 the 2 coal hopper empty tracks have been entirely removed from the dumper all the way to the switch on the Chester Industrial

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Not sure where the crude delivered to this site will go? The Delta Refinery in Trainer is most likely assuming they are not building their own terminal?

RWJ

LV95032 Wrote:
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> Not sure where the crude delivered to this site
> will go? The Delta Refinery in Trainer is most
> likely assuming they are not building their own
> terminal?
>
> RWJ

their website says they're going to barge it to customers but i'm like you ... what's left to barge the crude oil to altho Westville is ramping up for more oil trains so you're guess is as good as mine ...

here's 2 photos of tanks cars loaded with heavy crude

they are sitting on the NuStar industrial lead that get delivered to NuStar in Thorofare,NJ the town just north of Paulsboro ... NuStar is an asphalt refining company which is situated on the Delaware River directly across the river from the Philly airport a little up river from Eddystone ... the heavy crude cars get delivered in cuts that come into Camden on train NS 38G and empties out on 39G ... NuStar is also ramping up for more crude deliveries ... a new local train has been established out of Camden YPCA-19 just to accomodate this expanded service delivery ... new crossover switches were installed on the Thorofare siding to assist in the switching and staging of the heavy crude tanks ... this facility previously named Mantua Terminal use to import mid-eastern oil delivered by barges that got the oil from super tankers out in the Delaware Bay and transloaded it into tanks cars that went via rail by the PRSL then Conrail to the B.L. England power plant in Beesley's Point,NJ



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/13 07:33 by Out_Of_Service.

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It does make you wonder it rail terminal capacity in this area might exceed the refinery demand, especially with Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery closed. That refinery would have the room for expanded trackage to unload unit trains, altho the rail access is a little clumsy. Delaware City is getting one or more trains a day and I heard the new Philly terminal on CSX has 50 trains projected either this month or next. And tankers still come up the Delaware River, mostly to Fort Mifflin, PA and Paulsboro, NJ regularly, altho not as many of them. There was talk in this area that, since Fisker appears very unlikely to revive the GM auto plant in Wilmington that CSX would transfer its auto unloading facility at Twin Oaks to Wilsmere, and convert the Twin Oaks auto terminal into a crude oil unloading terminal, since it is close to existing pipelines. Bt Eddystone has the same advantage as Westville, it is on Conrail Shared Assets so is accessible by both CSX and NS, whereas Delaware City is captive to NS and Philly appears to be captive to CSX.

tp117 Wrote:
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> It does make you wonder it rail terminal capacity
> in this area might exceed the refinery demand,
> especially with Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery
> closed. That refinery would have the room for
> expanded trackage to unload unit trains, altho the
> rail access is a little clumsy. Delaware City is
> getting one or more trains a day and I heard the
> new Philly terminal on CSX has 50 trains projected
> either this month or next. And tankers still come
> up the Delaware River, mostly to Fort Mifflin, PA
> and Paulsboro, NJ regularly, altho not as many of
> them. There was talk in this area that, since
> Fisker appears very unlikely to revive the GM auto
> plant in Wilmington that CSX would transfer its
> auto unloading facility at Twin Oaks to Wilsmere,
> and convert the Twin Oaks auto terminal into a
> crude oil unloading terminal, since it is close to
> existing pipelines. Bt Eddystone has the same
> advantage as Westville, it is on Conrail Shared
> Assets so is accessible by both CSX and NS,
> whereas Delaware City is captive to NS and Philly
> appears to be captive to CSX.


altho located on CSAO Westville is still only being serviced solely by NS

Some of these tanks have been coming off 38G at Abrams and going down to Stoney Creek on the H86. Switched a boatload of them yesterday morning while working a yard job. More are coming in soon...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/13 08:34 by MH2198.

Bt Eddystone has the same
> advantage as Westville, it is on Conrail Shared
> Assets so is accessible by both CSX and NS,
> whereas Delaware City is captive to NS and Philly
> appears to be captive to CSX.

That is not an advantage when you are a third party facility competing against the refinery's own unloading facility. Exactly the reason why Philadelphia refinery built their own "onsite terminal" to get away from paying Sunoco Logistics extra charges at Westville.

RWJ

LV95032 Wrote:
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> Bt Eddystone has the same
> > advantage as Westville, it is on Conrail Shared
> > Assets so is accessible by both CSX and NS,
> > whereas Delaware City is captive to NS and
> Philly
> > appears to be captive to CSX.
>
> That is not an advantage when you are a third
> party facility competing against the refinery's
> own unloading facility. Exactly the reason why
> Philadelphia refinery built their own "onsite
> terminal" to get away from paying Sunoco Logistics
> extra charges at Westville.
>
> RWJ

Agreed. It's also possible that some of the refineries have tariff agreements with the rail carriers that address charges, etc. There were a lot of understandings written into agreements when some of these plants were restarted. The union gave up something, the town gave up something, the state made various assurances, so it's likely the railroads made some agreements as well.

Don't know it for a fact, but I'd be surprised if there aren't some agreements.