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I happened to notice on Google Maps a large and new-ish looking (and empty ) yard near a lot of oil tanks just north of Perth Amboy, in the "Vee" made by the junction of the CNJ coming (compass) south from Elizabethport and the PRR line coming southeast from Rahway . What is this?
https://goo.gl/maps/v41p46qWf2SmWvBj8
Just a speculative guess - back when oil trains with Bakken crude oil coming east maybe 10(?) years ago, there were some plans to build a train to ship oil loading facility at Perth Amboy , presumably for export? Maybe this was the off-loading site?
Thanks, Jim S
I don't think the Perth Amboy oil transfer ever really got going though. Maybe when fracking got going big in Texas it drove the price so low that the Bakken crude didn't make sense anymore. But I really don't know.
https://goo.gl/maps/v41p46qWf2SmWvBj8
Just a speculative guess - back when oil trains with Bakken crude oil coming east maybe 10(?) years ago, there were some plans to build a train to ship oil loading facility at Perth Amboy , presumably for export? Maybe this was the off-loading site?
Thanks, Jim S
I don't think the Perth Amboy oil transfer ever really got going though. Maybe when fracking got going big in Texas it drove the price so low that the Bakken crude didn't make sense anymore. But I really don't know.