I’m not certain, but I believe this is a “digester” vessel for a paper mill.  These pressure vessels are heated and pressurized to “cook” the lignin out of the wood to make paper pulp.

Doug Auburg

Battle Ground WA

(my first job out of engineering school was at a paper mill)

Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:10 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Tim O'Connor" cf5250

that is just spectacular! I like the mill markings on the tank too; I don't
think I've seen that before on that type of load.

>Here's an interesting load from the Frost Vancouver collection. Seems we were talking about these cars not too long ago. (Sorry if this photo was referenced then, but this is such an interesting collection to browse. Thanks to Bill for the great portfolio boxcar photos from this collection.)
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>Tom Madden

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