On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Norman+Laraine Larkin wrote:

Were the tanks on these cars removed for loading/unloading, or did that occur through controls on the end of the car?
Norm Larkin

Norm,

If you go to the Amarillo RR Museum site on the scrapping of some of these cars, you will see that the tanks remained on the car
http://amarillorailmuseum.com/scrap_he_cars.html

Regards
Bruce


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