The cars did not have a temperature control. They were insulated so well that the refrigerated wort only lost about one degree of temperature every few days.
Thanks for the clarification, Big Jim! There was a boxlike thingy over the manway on top. I guess it wasn’t elaborate enough for a mechanical refrigeration unit.
Advice to back up the entire computer is noted, and will be followed up on. I just encountered a situation this evening in which a periodic automatic backup, with access to erlier versions of my files, would have saved me a lot of work.
Automating the process would save me from my own vanity in this case. Goodness only knows that I’ll never be ready to back things up to my own satisfaction.
It just covered the valve stuff up there.
Those CORX cars were a pretty big deal when Coors started their operation south of Elkton, Va. because of how well insulated they were. I always wondered what happened to them when the Elkton plant started brewing the beer from scratch.
We always had to have the CORX mtys on the head end coming into Roanoke for easy set over to a west bound train.
Some things are starting to fall into place (I think). At the Transportation Museum in St. Louis, I remember seeing a car used for transporting milk in bulk. On the outside it looked like a regular boxcar or reefer, but inside there were tanks that took up all the space from the ends to the doors. The space between the doors was just an empty room. According to the explanatory sign, the tanks were stainless and well insulated, and there was no refrigeration. Temperature control depended only on the insulation and the sheer mass of the liquid. There was also no provision to keep the cream from separating since the motion of the car would keep it stirred up. It looks to me like this beer car is basically the same thing, but the “housing” over the tanks has been left off.
For the record, I purchased a remote backup drive today, and it’s now been installed. That would call for a Carling’s, eh?
It wasn’t yellow, was it?
No, the yellow thingies aren’t that big. These thingies were white, like the rest of the cars.
About a dozen cars a day of beer concentrate from Golden to their plant near Harrisonburg VA. NS used to get the traffic at KC and handle it on train 111. It was hot traffic!
Coors would then finish it by adding water and then bottling it. Harrisonburg is now a complete brewery (has been for 10 or 15 years?).