This mainline refueling facility for locomotives services the Pacific Northwest. This fueling facility is constructed over a federal designated "sole source" aquifer that supplies drinking water for almost 400,000 people in the Spokane, WA area. The four-track facility has the capability of supplying fuel, compressor oil, lube oil, journal oil, water, and traction sand to six-locomotive consists in a 30 minute period. The project includes multiple supply pumps, transfer pumps, dispensing pumps, piping, fuel filter vessels, storage tanks, fueling arms, boom cabinets, and miscellaneous equipment necessary for locomotive servicing.

Also included in the design are truck and 12-spot rail car loading and unloading systems with elevated safety platforms for unloading diesel fuel and lube oil and loading waste oil. Double wall, direct-buried transfer piping will supply diesel fuel and lube oil to the fueling platform. All systems are designed for a Zone 3 seismic region.

A fueling platform building is provided to house the heated day tanks, boiler and circulating pumps for the lube oil, compressor oil, and journal oil dispensing systems. A dump station is also designed for the sanitary waste disposal wagon. All of the piping on the fueling platform is designed to be carried in trenches in order to minimize obstructions while maintaining accessibility. The entire platform and ready tracks are provided with two layers of 60 mil thick HDPE secondary containment liners.

The traction sand system will include a 3,500 cubic foot bulk storage silo serving individual direct sanding transporters on the fueling platform. The system is capable of sanding all six locomotives at one time. Pneumatic conveying systems will be used to move sand from the bulk silo to the transporters and to convey sand to each locomotive. The sanding system is designed to stop automatically when each sanding box is filled.

Tank AFFF fire protection piping is provided to serve the tank farm. The facility is covered with a canopy and is designed to pre-treat the wastewaters continuously and store the pre-treated waste for disposal off-site.

The industrial effluent storage tank is designed with a capacity to hold the industrial waste for six months. The electrical design for these facilities include building power and lighting, and process controls for all of the facilities designed under this project. All of the fueling system controls are integrated into a PLC controller in the platform building.