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5/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Greg Elder
Dates:4/7/2014 - 4/7/2014
Album Info:The fuel depot in Newton Kansas is undergoing some upgrades. The underground supply lines to the pumps are being re-routed overhead much to my consternation as it has created more obstructions to photographs.
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Original depot
Title:  Original depot
Description:  Here is a shot of how the fuel pad looked several years ago before the new improvements.
Photo Date:  8/28/2011  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:43:22 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Pipe supports
Title:  Pipe supports
Description:  Installation of new rack for overhead fuel line.
Photo Date:  4/7/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:05:56 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Pipe support
Title:  Pipe support
Description:  Steel girders to hold up the new fuel supply line.
Photo Date:  4/8/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:07:54 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Welding steel
Title:  Welding steel
Description:  Welding the girders to hold up the new fuel supply line.
Photo Date:  4/9/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:10:29 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Welding
Title:  Welding
Description:  Finishing up the welding of the fuel supply line rack.
Photo Date:  4/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:12:22 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
Gawker
Title:  Gawker
Description:  BNSF workman filing tank & watching the welders.
Photo Date:  4/25/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:45:47 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 1773(SD40-2)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
Total view
Title:  Total view
Description:  Overview of the fuel pad with improvements. The piping serves 5 pumping stations.
Photo Date:  4/30/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:48:34 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
New pipe rack
Title:  New pipe rack
Description:  The orange pipe will carry fuel to the fuel pumps.
Photo Date:  4/30/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:17:23 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Ethanol train
Title:  Ethanol train
Description:  Moving past the new fuel rack is the local ethanol train.
Photo Date:  5/2/2014  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 4:19:31 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Risers
Title:  Risers
Description:  The fuel line risers ready for switchover.
Photo Date:  5/18/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:52:28 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Pipe check
Title:  Pipe check
Description:  Final testing and inspection.
Photo Date:  5/18/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:54:52 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  68   Comments: 0
Boeing salute
Title:  Boeing salute
Description:  The plane train passing final testing of the pipe line.
Photo Date:  5/21/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:56:32 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
Pipe detail
Title:  Pipe detail
Description:  Here is one of the pumps and the final piping. The old underground lines were abandonded.
Photo Date:  5/22/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 10:00:23 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Final tie-in
Title:  Final tie-in
Description:  The pipfitters tighten the final bolts to tie the new overhead fuel line to the gas pumps.
Photo Date:  5/22/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 9:58:29 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  65   Comments: 0
Finished rack
Title:  Finished rack
Description:  The Newton fuel pad with all the upgrades and improvements. Compare this to the shot taken in 8/28/2011. The trees have grown a little.
Photo Date:  5/28/2014  Upload Date: 5/28/2014 12:27:22 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  82   Comments: 0
Loading tanks
Title:  Loading tanks
Description:  As part of the fuel depot improvement work, two temporary tanks were brought in as stand-by. Here the tanks are being removed.
Photo Date:  9/2/2014  Upload Date: 1/2/2015 1:12:32 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard,Action
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
2nd tank
Title:  2nd tank
Description:  Here the second temporary fuel tank is benig removed.
Photo Date:  9/2/2014  Upload Date: 1/2/2015 1:13:28 PM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard,Action
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Views:  84   Comments: 0
BNSF 1632
Title:  BNSF 1632
Description:  At the Newton fuel racks. Note the work that has been done to the cab roof.
Photo Date:  4/5/2017  Upload Date: 4/9/2017 11:45:36 AM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 1632(SD40-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 2
BNSF 1632
Title:  BNSF 1632
Description:  New retrofit on the cab roof. New number boards, A/C, and ATCS?
Photo Date:  4/5/2017  Upload Date: 4/9/2017 11:49:29 AM
Location:  Newton, KS
Author:  Greg Elder
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 1632(SD40-2)
Views:  261   Comments: 1


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