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Designed to be easily expandable at a future date.Three miles of rail siding (including the bridge).Overhead tube conveyor highway crossing.600 ton per hour partially enclosed conveyor system with soft start.Hilfiger wall at the truck dump, featuring the use of MLC’s own rock.Stamler chain feeder with variable speed hydraulic drive.Enclosed stilling shed with passive dust control similar to PRB hoppers.Finally, the design required careful planning to continue the operation of the manifest-train loading during construction. Also, the existing bagging plant interfered with new spur routing hence, modifications to the bagging plant included structural modifications and system relocations. Once Benetech established the conceptual design, it was important to continue working with the customer to provide more accurate pricing and scheduling. Dome storage of an entire train was not affordable, which lead to the concept of establishing new spurs for storage and loading of both Limestone and Sugar Rock products by loading each train as quickly as the trucks can be brought from the quarry and dumped (transloaded). Top of bin dust collector controls dust at rail car unloading, bid discharge, and truck unloading points. Dual elevator feature eliminates down time. Undertrack chain conveyor rail car unloading rates from 50-300 TPH. At the same time, the quarry had an existing manifest-train loading system (a few cars per day), the rail company and the power plant needed to load a larger train at a higher rate. Overhead storage tanks of 150 tons to 500 tons each tank. This Montana limestone quarry needed to load unit trains with Limestone for transportation to the nearby power station’s Scrubber Feed System. Limestone Transload Material Handling (Quarry Haul Trucks to Unit Trains) Situation