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• The railroad cars are loaded in ten-car strings. A switch engine <br />locomotive located permanently at the site, positions the first car of <br />each ten-car string under the loading chute, then returns to the shed, <br />while a hydraulic positioner is used to move the remaining cars under <br />the chute for loading. <br />At regular intervals, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad deli- <br />vers sixty empty cars to the site, pulling the cars onto Track R (see <br />Drawing D-2-2). The locomotives disconnect from the empty cars, pull <br />through the loadout building and run on Track A to the site entrance. <br />The locomotives then connect to sixty loaded cars located on Track C, <br />and pull them from the site. <br />4.3.2.2 Operation Description <br />The surface disturbances associated with the loadout and unit-train <br />. facility are depicted in Drawings D-2-2, D-2-3, and D-2-4, and <br />described in Sections 4.3.2.3, Facilities; and Section 4.3.2.4, Ponds, <br />Impoundments, and Diversions. <br />A description of the areal extent of the underground workings and the <br />affected stratum is not applicable to the loadout. <br />4.3.2.3 Coadout Facilities <br />Support facilities on the site are minimized. Administrative offices, <br />warehouses, and other ancillary facilities located at the mine serve <br />the loadout also. No modifications or additions to the loadout faci- <br />lities are expected over the life of the project. <br />• <br />4-27 <br />