If so, would be in blocks or pellets?
thanks
ratled
This link is to a website from an organization of petrochemical manufacturers and it says that wax is shipped by truck or tank car.
http://www.afpm.org/Wax-Handling-Instructions/
Dave Nelson
Thanks guys, Pres To logs are exactly what I was looking at modeling so that helped a BUNCH. I figured wax in and box cars out of Pres To Logs.
ratled
Ratled,
The Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad ships wax for the plant that makes Yankee Candle Shop candles in covered hoppers. I believe the raw wax is in pellet form what thier General Manager was telling me.
Espee
The Duraflame facility in Stockton, Ca receives wax in tankcars placarded HOT. The Actual finished product goes out by truck and box car. Truck from the actual plant and they have a separate warehouse that takes boxes on spot. The tanks sit there in the storage tracks for up to weeks at a time before they spot, and they hook them up to steam lines to melt the wax if it has solidified at all. Hope this helps.
Erik
Hi!
I spent time at a major refinery in 1988 working in its “wax plant”. I mainly drove a fork lift and most all the shipments went out by truck, but some box cars (50 ft) were used. The wax was molded into slabs approximately 1ft x 2ft x 3in. They were stacked in large cardboard boxes 4x5x4 with a pallet underneath to a net weight of 2000 lbs.
I honestly don’t know if other refineries ship liquid or pellets, but only heard of the slabs.
A good portion of the market for this wax was to coat cardboard (i.e. frozen foods, liquid cartons, etc.). Of course there is a ton of other uses for it.
Mobilman44
I remember family that worked at a bulk plant for Standard Oil at Mt Vernon Illinois. I know they got oil by rail, but I do remember those slabs of wax. My mother was into candle making (and canning) and we got some of those slabs, back in the 70s. I can only make an assumption that is was either trucked in or was on a boxcar. The family and the plant is all gone, but a small facility like that would be a great thing to model in a small city.
BurlingtonRoute - Welcome to trains.com! [C):-)]
Wax is highly flammable and in many states and cities, it is treated by regulation much like gasoline or kerosene in that only so much can be stored in certain places and in certain ways. Wax is a fuel remember. All candles burn it nicely. The string is just a wick to soak up and transport the liquified fuel by capillary action.
I would think you will need to put a hazmat placard on the railcar denoting its flammability.
Richard
As batterymule7 wrote, it is usually placarded HOT. Sometimes it is placarded 3257. The placards are just white, no flammable placards.