I haven't eyballed these cars in a couple of years but
if my memory serves me right, they had Nay reporting
marks. They were silver (aluminum colored) with black
reporting marks.

Jim Scott
Lompoc, CA.
--- thompson@... wrote:

Jerru Michels said:

This is really interesting to me. Do you know

where they are coming from?

Do they still bear MHAX reporting marks? The

Amarillo and Excel plants have

been shut down for nearly two years. I wonder who

is still loading helium

into
these cars? I was under the impression that the

government was out of the

helium business.

Whether or not the government is in the helium
business, the demand for
it continues everywhere in the U.S., mostly for
welding gasses. Whether it
is transported today by rail or highway, I don't
know, but if there is rail
shipment, it seems reasonable that a non-government
supplier might be using
the old cars (built for the Navy originally, IIRC).

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,
Berkeley, CA
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