Trash Trains, where are they all going ?

Acording to Wiki the trash trains are going to Florida. It also has an trash train in maryland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_Transportation
CSX also runs daily trash trains out from New York City, bound for Florida, train numbers Q706/Q707 and Q702/Q703. These trains usually consist of about 50 cars with four 20‑foot containers of trash on each.

Another style of unit train is a local trash train, D765, runs between Derwood and Dickerson, both in Maryland. The train runs daily except on Sundays; on holidays it sometimes runs twice a day. Trash is carried from Montgomery County's Shady Grove Transfer Station to a waste-to-energy plant located off the PEPCO lead to Mirant's Dickerson Generating Station. The trip is roughly 17 miles (27 km), and the train is made up of National Steel Car Company-built well cars, hauling 40‑foot containers. The first NEMX equipment was built when the D765 first started operations in 1995. In recent years, the fleet has been somewhat upgraded, repainted, and new cars have been constructed. In the early days, the locomotives powering the train were a GP40-2/RDMT slug set, but currently the train can be upwards of 47 cars. The locomotives that now routinely power the train are a pair of EMD SD50s.
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If I remember correctly (At least some of) the trash trains to Florida are put on a barge and dumped in the ocean. I would be happy to be wrong.
Kenny
 
They roll by here on the Trenton Line every day. Most, AFAIK, go landfills in VA, unless things have changed.
 
There is a trash train operating operating on the BNSF that uses double stack containers to haul trash, I believe it is in Washington state. Also UP hauls trash in Oregon. Trains Magazine had an article on hauling trash. Go to https://www.youtube.com and type in trash train in the search box. That should fill you up with all the trash you are looking for:hehe:

John
 
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