Bessemer yard
A yard on Canadian National, and a terminal three miles up
The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the Bessemer yard with Canadian National as operator, about 2.24 miles from this borough’s centre and inside the place.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a liquid-bulk terminal about 3.0 miles north of it — a tank-truck loading point rather than anything extractive.
Coal refuse on one side, tank freight on the other
Those roads connect two quite different trades. The Harmar Refuse Site lies about 3.5 miles west, with the North Camp Run Mine about 5.0 miles north-west at Russellton — reclaimed coal ground rather than a working seam.
The rail side runs the other way: Verona about 3.9 miles south-west, West Tarentum about 4.2 miles north, Hall about 7.1 miles south at Monroeville and Pitcairn about 9.7 miles south, with an intermodal ramp about 9.6 miles south at Wall.
So a truck based here may be loading refuse on a soft haul road in the morning and pulling a container off a ramp in the afternoon. Those are different duty cycles and they show up on the same vehicle.
A truck that has worked both sides — soft ground at the Harmar Refuse Site 3.5 miles west and hard standing at the Pitcairn yard 9.7 miles south — carries suspension and frame wear from one and clutch and brake wear from the other. Neither is a reason we would walk away.
- Soft-ground work marks a truck and it is not a mark against it here.
Between the North Camp Run Mine and West Tarentum about 4.2 miles north they turn up steadily.