Has anybody seen any 50 foot tankers than are white with turquoise horizontal stripes and a coniferous tree symbol with EAGX reporting marks?
What is in those tankers? I see plenty of them with different reporting marks even, going by and fasinated what chemical is in such demand.
It might be an anomaly due to geography. I have never seen any.
They are often on Chicago bound trains and their is several on trains heading to Allentown PA. I don’t know if they drop them of at a yard along the way though.
www.niagararails.com/railcars.shtml
There are several photo of Eaglebrook tankers here including the ones I describe.
Eaglebrook Inc. makes chemicals for wastewater treatment. The chemicals in the cars pictured are probably on the way to municipal water treatment facilities where they get the “people stuff” out of the water.
Hydrochloric acid, in some cases, based on the cars I’ve seen.
Is that the rust coloured ones or the white ones?
They have a very informative website at http://www.eaglebrook.com. Though it does not say what is shipped in its cars, it does list its products and what they do.
I have a website with rolling stock numbers on it, the reporting marks EAGX seem pretty familar to me. I probably have seen a couple of them. I still have around 10,000 more rolling stock numbers to add my website. If anyone would like to check my website out it is www.freewebs.com/railine .
I have seen some of these (along with similar cars with other marks) being delivered to a local paper plant. (Springfield, OR) They aren’t HCL-no hazardous placards.
I should correct that. White cars leased to Eaglebrook by Union Tank Car are the ones that I know for sure are used for hydrochloric acid.
Hydrochloric acid is not listed among Eaglebrook’s products; perhaps it is a commodity obtained to aid in the production of its products.
I think that most of the EAGX cars were previously owned by DuPont, and lettered DUPX. When DuPont had them, the brown cars were used for ferric chloride.
Mike, I checked your website. Is this way of recording he car numbers you’ve seen, or is there some other special significance to the ones you list?
I started out doing something similar to that–writing down the numbers and trying to figure out the series, and which numbers I could expect a certain type of car to occupy.
Then I found out about Equipment Registers, and my documentation changed to observing lessees, prior identities, etc., and other stuff that the Registers don’t show, such as builders, styles of cars. It only gets worse…
Those brown coloured ones, have you seen any in ACFX reporting marks? I some some with the lash up of Eaglebrook tankers but I found out that they carried hydrofluoric acid.
Yes, there are some brown-and-black tank cars somewhere in the ACFX 72000 series that are now leased to Eaglebrook. Again, these were previously leased to DuPont and used for ferric chloride.
Does anybody know of any water treatment plants that take thease kind of cars? The ones here take Eaglebrook trucks so I don’t get to see thease cars except on through freights.
A little bit more on the Eaglebrook fleet:
The cars in EAGX series 19000-19071 are brown, and were formerly in DUPX series 17361-17434.
The cars in EAGX series 20001-20020 are white, with the blue and green markings, and were built for Eaglebrook in 2001.
The brown ACFX cars leased to Eaglebrook are in series 72334-72374. There are also a very few GATX and UTLX cars leased to Eaglebrook and painted brown.
White cars leased to Eaglebrook (with blue and green markings) have been observed with ACFX, SHPX, UTLX, TLDX, and RTMX reporting marks.
In addition, Eaglebrook leases a few GATX and UTLX tank cars that are white, with no markings.
If I see any of these cars again soon, I’ll check out what they’re carrying.
Thankyou for sharing your information with me.[:)]
I put down any railcar I see. Also, all the information on there, meaning locomotive and rolling stock, I have seen all of them in real life.
The MMSD plant on Jones Island here in Milwaukee gets those tank cars, as well as some of the trucks. Now I wish I had taken pictures of some of them before the Feds closed off the island to the public. [:(] Guess they don’t want terrorists to blow up the salt piles on the “island”!
Here’s a related question that somebody might be able to answer. There are seven (that I have seen) covered hoppers that regularly hang around the MMSD plant that all have “CCL” reporting marks. All are formerly UP-family cars. Anybody know who CCL is?
Thanks,
-Mark
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CCL reporting marks haven’t been assigned to anyone, as of September (latest info available). I suspect that these are the initials of a local company, and that the cars, obtained from UP, have been voted onto the island permanently. As such, they wouldn’t even need the “X” at the end.
(Besides, CCLX is a fairly well-known reporting mark for Crystal Car Line.)