Pier 86 Grain Terminal - Seattle, WA
N 47° 37.570 W 122° 22.250
10T E 547271 N 5274943
A grain elevator located at Pier 86.
Waymark Code: WMVB5R
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2017
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Located not far from a grain terminal and within Centennial Park is an interpretive display that highlights this grain terminal's operation and reads:
Pier 86 Grain Terminal
Rail Trackage: For 175 Rail cars; expandable to 215 cars.
Vessel Loading: The pouring rate form shipping bins to vessel at full speed is 3,000 tons per hour via twin 48-inch conveyor belts. If desired, two kinds of grain can be loaded simultaneously via two separate shipping systems. Modern bulk carriers in the 15,000-ton-class are loaded in one day.
Truck Unloader: Unloader rate is 250 tons per hour.
Headhouse: In a loading operation, grain is transported from silos by belts to the 245-foot-high headhouse, dropped by gravity into automatic scales and then into shipping bins. There are eight shipping bins with a capacity of 1,200 tons.
I took pictures of this grain elevator over two days. On the second day, I saw a liner actually unloading grain onto the conveyor belt. It was pretty neat to watch it in action.