I am wondering when these were used and what they hauled?
This one is bigger than any 8axle tanks that I have seen in service now.
Thanks in advance.
ICMR
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Maybe now we be a good time to aske about this, what in the world id it carry?
Sould have asked me icmr they hueled gasoline. Got it off of website.
That particular one was only a prototype and hauled LPG. THe multiple compartment car probably hauled wine. There is a thread on here about 8 and 6 axle tank cars, it is a recent one too.
Walter, are you sure the website sad gasoline and not “gas”, as in liquefied petroleum gas? That car, GATX 96500, was one-of-a-kind, with a capacity of about 60,000 gallons. It is a pressure tank car, designed to carry compressed gases. It was built in the last half of the Sixties, was off the roster by 1973, and in the museum at St. Louis by 1976. (Had that car been loaded with gasoline, it would have exceeded its load limit by a considerable markin.)
James, you should have asked about your car as a trivia question! The answer is, most likely, wine. Each compartment of that car would have held about 1000 gallons or so.
Thanks!
Thanks for the info.
ICMR
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Multidome tank cars were compartmentalized for hauling more than one liquid. Wine was one commodity from the winerys that was hauled and then bottled with private labels at the destination. I believe lubricants were also deliverd in this manner.
Yes, most of your tank cars with two or three domes were used for various grades of petroleum products. You don’t see domes on tank cars any more, but multi-compartment cars are still out there. Two-compartment cars are fairly common (each compartment holds as much as a “normal” tank car used to!), and three- and four- compartment cars, though not as common, are still there, and are still being built from time to time.
A bunch of three- and four-comparment tank cars were built by General American (I want to say in the early 1970s) for wine service. There were several different configurations (compartments don’t always have to be equal in size). I haven’t seen these for a while, though. Eric, I thought they may have been a California phenomenon–are they still out there?
Both of the Canadian lessors of tank cars (Procor and what used to be CGTX) have good-sized fleets of two-compartment cars.
What,?
They hauled wine in that monster?
If they need someplace to park the big kegger, I can find you a siding!
Ed[:D]
No, Ed–the little tank car in James’ (Lotus) picture was the one for wine.
The big one held gas at 500 psi–probably the biggest belch you’d ever want to hear!
Lubricants: Either wine or the stuff you put in the engine of your car.
Jay
That might depend on how well “oiled” you want to be ![:D]
Well, one can always hope…!
Ed[:D]
There is a car similar to the one in St Louis in the museum in Galveston,TX.
What’s this about oily wine? Sounds like a great vintage…YUK!!
Want to see large tank cars ? Try this site,type in railwhales.com on your address bar.Sometimes this site doesn’t want to load,but keep trying…Patrick
Carl, there used to be a small fleet in the GATX 39990 amd GATX 94900 series (I think) that hauled wine from a local winery. I have not seen any of these for a few years now. This winery now ships large quantities of grape juice concentrate in single compartment tank cars leased to Welch Foods (which is not the owner of the winery). It also occassionally receives large quantities of corn syrup by rail.
We do regularly get four compartment tankcars hauling in some type of ag chemical from Louisiana (EUSX 448000 series).
Those were the GATX cars I was thinking of–and I just saw one of those EUSX cars tonight!