Turners Island LLC (shortline RR in South Portland, ME)

Bulkheadflat wrote:Turners Island has been loaded with cars lately, saw a line of at least 10 open-top high sided black hoppers in there last week, with quite a few others sitting in the sidings behind the neighborhood, busy place these days!

Yeah, Turner's Island looked full to me with those same cars from the other side of the water a few weeks ago. Business must be picking up for them.

Interesting reports about Turner's Island. Almost sounds like scrap gons....?

Don't they get rebar?

gokeefe wrote:Interesting reports about Turner's Island. Almost sounds like scrap gons....?

Trash iirc

C&D, municipal waste or sludge?

Huh. Looks like I was beaten to the punch! Thanks for directing me there.

Lots going on at TI, even an Emskip container in the group.
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Are those a bunch of covered hoppers? I can see the gons and the boxcar, but It's hard to tell, my eyesight isn't great.

looks like all the same type of gons, minus the two short guys and the boxcar. It'd be rather tough loading scrap metal into a covered hopper.

Actually, there appears to be 20 covered hoppers in the second photo. I zoomed in. There is also a boxcar and 2 gondolas there.

They look like high sided gons. I don't know why they would have covered hoppers there unless they were scrapping them. Which they could be lol. It's tough to tell what they are with 100% certainty.

You can see inside the top of them (starting at about the fifth one from the left), no zoom required.

The other day I saw a long string of tank cars on the track east of the Broadway crossing, going to Turner's Island. Any ideas as to what's going on with them? Scrapping outdated tank cars, maybe?
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Probably propane. Hard to be sure.

I saw them too. I'll try to get a better look when I go by there again this evening.