Eastern Railroad Discussion > Eddystone and Oil

Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge Inc will be developing a crude-by-rail unloading facility jointly with Canopy Prospecting Inc. They'll be calling the place Eddystone Rail Co. Project is expected to handle 80,000 barrels per day, opening in the third quarter of 2013; expandable to 160,000 b/d with ability to transload to barge or pipeline.

Other stuff straight from the press release:

The total estimated capital cost of the project is approximately US$68 million, including interest during construction. Project scope includes leasing portions of Exelon Generation's Eddystone power generation facility and reconfiguring existing track to accommodate 120 car unit-trains, installing crude offloading equipment, refurbishing an existing 200,000 barrel tank and upgrading an existing barge loading facility. Additional storage and pipelines connecting Eddystone to Philadelphia area refineries are under development.

"The Eddystone Rail Company will be the largest unit-train facility able to receive North Dakota Bakken and other light sweet crudes directly into Philadelphia area refineries" said Jack Galloway, President of Canopy Prospecting, Inc. "At nearly one million barrels per day, the region is second only to Houston in the concentration of light sweet refining capacity. Eddystone will be the first to provide access directly to those refineries from a rail facility."

In early 2013, Enbridge's Bakken Expansion Program will add 200,000 bpd of increased export pipeline capacity from the Bakken - 80,000 bpd into Berthold and 120,000 bpd into Cromer, Manitoba - taking Enbridge's total capacity from North Dakota to 475,000 bpd.

"Rail is the fastest way to provide increased export capacity out of the Bakken, creating a near-term solution to transportation bottlenecks and the resulting crude oil pricing differentials," said Stephen J. Wuori, President, Liquids Pipelines, Enbridge Inc. "Eddystone is an important step in our longer-term strategy to accommodate the anticipated growth of light crude oil supply and to provide Bakken producers and PADD I refiners cost-effective capacity to premium markets on the eastern side of North America.

"At the same time, Enbridge's Berthold and Eddystone rail projects will create employment and help the U.S. economy by delivering growing supplies of domestic crude to these once idle or under-utilized U.S. refineries, which have been dependent on more expensive foreign imports."

Enbridge will proceed with customary environmental, local and regulatory approvals to facilitate in-service in the third quarter of 2013. The company expects to begin stakeholder consultation for the Eddystone project in November 2012 and will share information and seek input from the community surrounding the rail facility. Enbridge is committed to safety and protecting the environment during each phase of project construction and operation.

i don't where they'd have the room for storage capacity

here's the power plant which is still in use using gas fired boilers

http://goo.gl/maps/WFOd5

Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> i don't where they'd have the room for storage
> capacity
>
> here's the power plant which is still in use using
> gas fired boilers
>
> http://goo.gl/maps/WFOd5


Existing tankage is visible, perhaps the expansion would be where the coal pile is, or perhaps the expanded tankage is offsite elsewhere in the general area. They say that pipeline is available in the location so the additional tanks wouldn't need to be close by the unloading site.

The site has a balloon track to unload unit coal trains, tracks don't care what type car sits on them so instead of unloading coal at the dumper they will unload tank cars at oil racks. I believe the Eddystone coal plant is closed or is about to be closed.

Dave

tehachapi-dave Wrote:
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> The site has a balloon track to unload unit coal
> trains, tracks don't care what type car sits on
> them so instead of unloading coal at the dumper
> they will unload tank cars at oil racks. I
> believe the Eddystone coal plant is closed or is
> about to be closed.
>
> Dave

just for clarification the coal trains to Eddystone weren't unloaded as a unit ... the were cut onto the 5 tracks in the yard then shoved in cuts around the loop by the plant switcher onto 2 holding tracks for the empties ... it will be interesting to see they reconfigure the track layout for the crude facility

"Eddystone" brings up memories of the Baldwin Locomotive plant. Is there anything left of that, and is the bulk unloading facility anywhere near the site?

My understanding is the Conrail Chester Secondary is being rehabbed to handle the 100+ car trains, including the rebuilding of a siding close to the power plant.

The Baldwin company headquarters building was never torn down and was re-developed as multi-tenant office complex in the'90's

MH2198 Wrote:
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> My understanding is the Conrail Chester Secondary
> is being rehabbed to handle the 100+ car trains,
> including the rebuilding of a siding close to the
> power plant.

when coal was being delivered NS made the delivery to Eddystone and inbound loads would run via Belmont to CSX Vine St to Eastwick where the Chester Secondary begins and headed south to the power plant where the crews would reverse shove the 5 yard tracks in the plant ... empty trains leaving Eddystone would gather the cars off the 2 storage tracks and the power units would be setup to head south where they would run to Stoney Creek yard and out the Linwood Branch to Hook interlocking on Amtrak's NEC where they would head north to Phil and over the High Line ... there were times where they'd run around the train at Trainer and head north to Eastwick ... we'll see how they logistically setup the new trackage to run north from the plant ... so far all crude oil movements in the area have been NS but if CSX trains are part of the plan and using the Philly sub they would have to reverse at RG in Philly to access the Chester Secondary ... if CSX uses the Trenton sub it's a head on run onto the Chester Sec ... time will tell



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/12 20:41 by Out_Of_Service.

DNRY122 Wrote:
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> "Eddystone" brings up memories of the Baldwin
> Locomotive plant. Is there anything left of that,
> and is the bulk unloading facility anywhere near
> the site?


LOL... Eddystone and Oil = SP Cab Forwards. Seems like it all went downhill after the last AC-12 was delivered, eh? :-)

I don't read Trainorders everyday but the use of the Eddystone facility as a crude oil transfer facility has real possibilities. The loop in there is 1.26 miles. It is certainly more adaptable than the use of the old Conoco-Phillips, now Monroe Energy site in Trainor a few miles south. I checked that place a few weekends ago and no work had been done to get tank cars into the very limited fuel racks reached by a switchback/ diamond crossing of the Stoney Creek Branch. This is the place Delta Airlines wants to use per articles in the WSJ and other papers. And Eddystone would be easier than using Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery which has slow rail access and a bit of street running.

Some 30 year old pipeline maps liberated from Conrail trash 'at the end' show pipelines in the area but I think they are all product pipelines. But Eddystone has river access and got coal by water as well as rail. Crude and refined oil product transfer by water on the Delaware River is a well established business with some of the largest and newest ATB's and barges, and oil can go anywhere there is a dock and handling facilities.

One thing that is definitely happening is building a double track crude oil unloading loop at the PBF refinery in Delaware City. Took pics on Thanksgiving Day. It is impressive. Since then there has been four 100 car crude trains into there.

tp117 Wrote:
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> I don't read Trainorders everyday but the use of
> the Eddystone facility as a crude oil transfer
> facility has real possibilities. The loop in there
> is 1.26 miles. It is certainly more adaptable than
> the use of the old Conoco-Phillips, now Monroe
> Energy site in Trainor a few miles south. I
> checked that place a few weekends ago and no work
> had been done to get tank cars into the very
> limited fuel racks reached by a switchback/
> diamond crossing of the Stoney Creek Branch. This
> is the place Delta Airlines wants to use per
> articles in the WSJ and other papers. And
> Eddystone would be easier than using Sunoco's
> Marcus Hook refinery which has slow rail access
> and a bit of street running.
>
> Some 30 year old pipeline maps liberated from
> Conrail trash 'at the end' show pipelines in the
> area but I think they are all product pipelines.
> But Eddystone has river access and got coal by
> water as well as rail. Crude and refined oil
> product transfer by water on the Delaware River is
> a well established business with some of the
> largest and newest ATB's and barges, and oil can
> go anywhere there is a dock and handling
> facilities.
>
> One thing that is definitely happening is building
> a double track crude oil unloading loop at the PBF
> refinery in Delaware City. Took pics on
> Thanksgiving Day. It is impressive. Since then
> there has been four 100 car crude trains into
> there.

Thanks for the info. The double track unloading loop is interesting. That will offer greater potential to move more crude into the plant.