A hopper car opened it's doors and spilled over 100 tons of coal
on the track. With my ballast regulator we gonna shove it away from
the tracks today. Then Hulcher will come and clean up the big piles with
their grapple truck and after that bring their vacuum truck to get the fines.
Coal was taken back to the prep plant where it was ran back thru. There was
very little waste other than time and money for Hulcher to do the clean up.

Here's a link to watch video on Hulcher's vacuum truck working at another section
of track:
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In the first part of the video will provide a short discussion on why
these loaded hopper car doors are coming open when their is no air on them
that will include some visuals so you can see exactly what we are talking
about.

Hulcher was in here the day before with their grapple truck with a clam
bucket and had loaded this car. Backing down track the doors opened
up. The day this video was made, we took the locomotive up and
finished dumping the car on the track. I had to plow that coal away
from the track so Hulcher could get thru the spill and start the
clean up process once again.

These CYMX cars have been here since 1996. Most hopper cars on
most railroads get dumped once or twice a week. These cars get
dumped 6 times a day, 7 days a week, 363 days a year when we
are running good coal. They have a lot of wear on the moving door
parts.

We do not have a dedicated car repair crew here. We have 4 mechanics. 2
on day shift and 1 on afternoon and 1 on midnight. They are responsible
for everything at the harbor including all electric, the belts, feeders,
vehicles, water treatment plant, locomotives and a bunch of other stuff including
doing hopper car repair. There is just not enough man power or hours in the day to
get everything accomplished. These mechanics are swamped and do an
amazing job at trying to keep up with everything but again, not everything gets
done that could be done. But that's railroading.

Made April 05, 2022

Disclaimer: I am an employee of Iron Senergy at Cumberland
Mine. My job is railroad track maintenance. I am very fortunate to
have this job and everyone at the mine is very fortunate to have
Iron Senergy as it's current owner. Our past owners had every
intention of shutting this mine down, but Iron Senergy took
over and have kept this mine alive.

Please understand: I am NOT in any way an official or unofficial
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descriptions or any answer to any comment, should NEVER be
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