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Specter3

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Really neat concrete plant with 2 track levels
« on: March 07, 2021, 08:24:33 PM »
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Was up in Hendersonville for a volleyball tourney this weekend. This involves a lot of down time between games. So I went poking around the old Saluda Grade line of which this part is now run by Blue Ridge Southern. This cement plant has two levels of unloading tracks and IMHO would be a really neat model. If you want to see it from the air it is just off I26 south on state hwy 25.

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Re: Really neat concrete plant with 2 track levels
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2021, 11:13:30 AM »
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Yep, at the Fletcher exit. BLU has several customers in the area. Just a little North on 25, the same company has a smaller plant that also receives covered hoppers. They're literally within 2 miles of each other. There's also a small terminal for unloading grain in the Fletcher Industrial Park. Sierra Nevada and several other local brewers get their grain from there.

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Re: Really neat concrete plant with 2 track levels
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2021, 03:24:34 AM »
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@jmarley76 Do you know you long this plant has been around?
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Re: Really neat concrete plant with 2 track levels
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2021, 05:25:02 PM »
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Yes, I saw the other one you mentioned. I walked a bit of the line behind the volleyball place and found a siding that had been cut out for another concrete place. I pulled in at the RR office where a couple of GP39-2 were sitting. One unit was running, keeping the brakes aired up.

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Re: Really neat concrete plant with 2 track levels
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2021, 12:19:04 AM »
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@jmarley76 Do you know you long this plant has been around?

Probably late 60's I would guess.