Sell your semi truck for cash in Franklin the easy and convenient way

The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a rail yard operated by LVRJ inside the city of Johnstown rather than inside the borough. That is the first thing to know about this place: the borough and the yards that serve it are not the same municipality.

The same rail network data lists three yards carrying the Conemaugh name. Within about 3 miles there are also the Clinton Street yard, the Minersville yard at Brownstown and the Hornerstown yard — six rail yards inside a circle a person could walk across.

Those yards exist because of what is under the hills around them. The Madison Mine about 5 miles north works bituminous coal underground with 69 people, and the Maple Springs Mine about 10 miles south works it underground with 48. Between them the Bird Refuse Pile about 5 miles south works at surface with 10 and a preparation plant about 9 miles south-east with 6.

So the traffic splits between deep mines, surface work and preparation plants, and each one loads differently. The Vintondale Quarry about 7 miles north works sandstone with 15.

That combination is what makes the lanes here short. Coal moves from a mine or a plant to a loadout, and the loadout is rarely far. The South Fork yard is about 6 miles east, the Challenger yard at Seward about 8 miles north-west and the Dilltown facility about 12 miles north-west.

So a truck working here can turn several loads in a day without going far, which puts the wear into starts, stops and loading rather than into miles. The Ralphton Mine about 12 miles south-west works with 3 people and a strip about 13 miles north with 1 — at that scale one truck is the whole fleet.

Coal trucks and haulage bodies, tri-axle dumps and aggregate haulers, flatbeds, day cabs and road tractors, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups every small operation keeps beside its big truck.

Between the Madison Mine about 5 miles north and the preparation plant about 9 miles south-east the work turns over on its own cycle, and a one-truck operation that loses its contract has nowhere to put the truck.

• Tell us what body is on it, because a coal body and a stone body are not the same truck.
• Can you collect from a mine or a yard?Around the Maple Springs Mine and the South Fork yard it is routine — a gate and a contact is all we need.
• We are a three-person operation.That is the usual size in this valley. One truck at a time is the normal sale.

A seam finishes or a contract moves, and the truck that served it has no obvious second home.

So it sits between the Bird Refuse Pile about 5 miles south and the surface mine Robindale Energy works about 9 miles north-west, on ground that has no further use for it.