Post by BuckSkin on Nov 7, 2024 2:35:54 GMT
Kinder Morgan Barge Transloading Facility
As of 2024 Now = Superior River Terminals Indiana - SRTI
Ohio River Mile-post 597.2 - Indiana Port Authority
Port of Indiana – Jeffersonville - Clark County - Indiana
Monday_28-July-2014
Photos taken from the Truck Landing at Kinder Morgan while standing on the trailer flat - looking down-river = West.
The huge Grain Bins and the big concrete Grain Elevators beyond them are part of Consolidated Grain & Barge, Ohio River Mile-post 597.4.
The Grain Bins are equipped with dryers as evidenced by the many air vents on the tops of the bins; the nearest bin is more intense and better equipped than the other two visible bins; it also appears to be more recently built.
Humidity is the death of more grain than all other factors combined.
In the foreground is a liquid transfer pipe belonging to Tanco Clark Maritime.
It crosses the pipeline bridge just visible at left to carry liquids to and from barges on the Ohio River just out of the photo at left.
Notice the big "U" shape in the pipe; these are located every few yards all along the line; the only thing I can figure is they are "expansion" joints that give and take with the expansion and contraction of the pipe; without these, the pipe would probably warp and buckle.
Consolidated Grain & Barge also owns MG Rail\Merchants Grain Rail which serves all the industries and transloaders in the port area.
The black Locomotive is MG Rail MGRI 1847; a Rebuilt EMD GP16.
Built As: ACL 120 GP7 - Serial Number: 11145
Order No: 5022 - Frame Number: 5022-21 - Built: May-1950
She started out new as a GP7 as Atlantic Coast Line ACL 120;
then Seaboard Coast Line(formerly Seaboard Airline Railroad);
then she became Seaboard System SBD 4801;
then CSX 1847(the number she now wears - latest photo I find is 1993);
and now she is MGRI 1847(earliest photo I find = 1997).
So, Merchants Grain Rail acquired her sometime between 1993 and 1997.
She was 64-yrs-old when this photo was taken and 74-yrs-old today(2024).
The big yellow machine at extreme right is a Liebherr 922 Hi-Cab Rubber-tired Excavator with a hook attachment to load and handle the big loops of cable that are everywhere around here.
Nearest overhead is a liquid transfer pipeline bridge belonging to Tanco Clark Maritime; it is used to carry liquids to and from barges on the Ohio River which is just out of photo at left.
Beyond it is a Grain Conveyor Bridge that carries grain to and from barges.
The 16-April-2022 Satellite View shows another grain conveyor that is much nearer to the pipeline bridge; that conveyor did not exist in 2014 when these photos were taken.
Farthest in the distance, just visible at near-bottom-right, is a huge conveyor housed in a "tube" that comes out of the ground straight from the center of this whole operation.
This can all be better understood by looking at Satellite View at these coordinates:
38.315445° -85.667112° 140.5128 m 461'
In the foreground are rolls of what appear to be rusty steel cable; this stuff was stacked and stored everywhere on the Kinder Morgan property when I was there in 2014.
I was there to get a huge roll of flat "steel coil"; think a monster-sized roll of thin steel toilet paper.
Almost every other truck there was loading these weird rolls of whatever this stuff is; many of the trailers were equipped specifically to load and haul this stuff such that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for them to haul anything else.
They have some big loaders there that are specifically equipped to handle this stuff.
As popular as this stuff seemed to be, it sure didn't look very valuable to me; I have no idea what it is, nor what it's end use would be; but, it must be pretty vital somewhere considering the way it was coming in and out of this place.
I saw somewhere a photo of a barge being unloaded that was still about half-filled with this stuff; that single photo made me realize just how massive a barge really is; it would have taken a line of semis from here to Murfreesboro Tennessee to have hauled it all out of there.
As of 2024 Now = Superior River Terminals Indiana - SRTI
Ohio River Mile-post 597.2 - Indiana Port Authority
Port of Indiana – Jeffersonville - Clark County - Indiana
Monday_28-July-2014
Photos taken from the Truck Landing at Kinder Morgan while standing on the trailer flat - looking down-river = West.
The huge Grain Bins and the big concrete Grain Elevators beyond them are part of Consolidated Grain & Barge, Ohio River Mile-post 597.4.
The Grain Bins are equipped with dryers as evidenced by the many air vents on the tops of the bins; the nearest bin is more intense and better equipped than the other two visible bins; it also appears to be more recently built.
Humidity is the death of more grain than all other factors combined.
In the foreground is a liquid transfer pipe belonging to Tanco Clark Maritime.
It crosses the pipeline bridge just visible at left to carry liquids to and from barges on the Ohio River just out of the photo at left.
Notice the big "U" shape in the pipe; these are located every few yards all along the line; the only thing I can figure is they are "expansion" joints that give and take with the expansion and contraction of the pipe; without these, the pipe would probably warp and buckle.
Consolidated Grain & Barge also owns MG Rail\Merchants Grain Rail which serves all the industries and transloaders in the port area.
The black Locomotive is MG Rail MGRI 1847; a Rebuilt EMD GP16.
Built As: ACL 120 GP7 - Serial Number: 11145
Order No: 5022 - Frame Number: 5022-21 - Built: May-1950
She started out new as a GP7 as Atlantic Coast Line ACL 120;
then Seaboard Coast Line(formerly Seaboard Airline Railroad);
then she became Seaboard System SBD 4801;
then CSX 1847(the number she now wears - latest photo I find is 1993);
and now she is MGRI 1847(earliest photo I find = 1997).
So, Merchants Grain Rail acquired her sometime between 1993 and 1997.
She was 64-yrs-old when this photo was taken and 74-yrs-old today(2024).
The big yellow machine at extreme right is a Liebherr 922 Hi-Cab Rubber-tired Excavator with a hook attachment to load and handle the big loops of cable that are everywhere around here.
Nearest overhead is a liquid transfer pipeline bridge belonging to Tanco Clark Maritime; it is used to carry liquids to and from barges on the Ohio River which is just out of photo at left.
Beyond it is a Grain Conveyor Bridge that carries grain to and from barges.
The 16-April-2022 Satellite View shows another grain conveyor that is much nearer to the pipeline bridge; that conveyor did not exist in 2014 when these photos were taken.
Farthest in the distance, just visible at near-bottom-right, is a huge conveyor housed in a "tube" that comes out of the ground straight from the center of this whole operation.
This can all be better understood by looking at Satellite View at these coordinates:
38.315445° -85.667112° 140.5128 m 461'
In the foreground are rolls of what appear to be rusty steel cable; this stuff was stacked and stored everywhere on the Kinder Morgan property when I was there in 2014.
I was there to get a huge roll of flat "steel coil"; think a monster-sized roll of thin steel toilet paper.
Almost every other truck there was loading these weird rolls of whatever this stuff is; many of the trailers were equipped specifically to load and haul this stuff such that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for them to haul anything else.
They have some big loaders there that are specifically equipped to handle this stuff.
As popular as this stuff seemed to be, it sure didn't look very valuable to me; I have no idea what it is, nor what it's end use would be; but, it must be pretty vital somewhere considering the way it was coming in and out of this place.
I saw somewhere a photo of a barge being unloaded that was still about half-filled with this stuff; that single photo made me realize just how massive a barge really is; it would have taken a line of semis from here to Murfreesboro Tennessee to have hauled it all out of there.
