Tank Cars

[MidlandMike]

Some really heavy chemicals like bromine, travel in some really small tank cars:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=815502

[PNWRMNM]

Some really heavy chemicals like bromine, travel in some really small tank cars:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=815502

Yes, bromine is very heavy, but the load limit of the car is only 60,000 pounds as best as I can read it. Weight of load is roughly 1/3 of that of a nominal 100 ton car.

Mac

[BaltACD]

MidlandMike

Some really heavy chemicals like bromine, travel in some really small tank cars:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=815502

Yes, bromine is very heavy, but the load limit of the car is only 60,000 pounds as best as I can read it. Weight of load is roughly 1/3 of that of a nominal 100 ton car.

Mac

Car is still listed in UMLER, however it is not legal in Interchange Service. Outside length of the car is 29 feet 2 inches. Its allowed maximum weight on rail is 108K pounds.

[PJS1]

Balt, thanks so much for that reference; I’ve now bookmarked it.

JPS1, I’m betting you saw a train on a western railroad, probably Union Pacific. The short cars may have been for the transportation of corn syrup and the larger ones (closer to 60 feet long) were probably for ethanol.

Yep! On the UP near Marfa, TX. I have no sense of size and measurement. Closer to 60 feet sounds good to me.