May not have been calcium chloride, could be calcium carbide, still used today for large scale acetylene gas production for welding and cutting. Now transported in tote bins by flat-bed trucks.
Jerry Albin
--- In STMFC@..., "Doug Brown" <brown194@t...> wrote:
Welding before bottled gas.
Doug Brown
Good question! It is clearly a conversion to company service/MOW.
Jack Consoli's comment about Calcium Chloride has me wondering.
What
was CaCl used for? Was the car used to store CaCl? Was there some application of CaCl that could be accomplished by a rail car?
