Seems like that's as good a guess as any, Frank. But it begs the question of what sort of non-inflammable liquid C-I steel would be shipping that required ten 12,600 gal. tank cars with

Hi, All. I started a new group for letting members know of private layouts that can be visited. Since a lot of buzz has been out here dealing about clubs folding, I thought that this would be an

All; Let's look at what we know: 1) The car was owned by Carnegie-Illinois Steel (the steel, and incidentally, coke and coke-by-product maker), and was; 2) ...stenciled for loading with

Of peripheral interest in this discussion was the observed fact that in two month 2006 test of couplers holding together a fully operating 131 car train of freight cars of mixed ancestry pulled by

Indianapolis still has a coke gas production facility. Both the NKP and Monon had specialty cars assigned to carry the coke, primarily to steel mills. It now goes by truck. Bill Darnaby

Usually gassification of coal.  Even small cities had these.  Brainerd Minnesota had one dating back to the early 1900's.  This gas is different from natural gas (which is usually methane and

That's a large gallonage for a 50-ton car, so I'd suspect the lading was lighter than water; but liquid tar, naphtha, benzene, and xylene are all flammable liquids. Al Brown, Melbourne,

The flange is a "blind" used to blank off a flanged nozzle.  There once have been a "u-tube' tank heater in that nozzle.  However, there are no connections for steam supply or condensate drainage;

Dave Nelson wrote: Dave, Northeast Rails has this: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/dicx208.jpg. HTH Bert

Yes, Coke was a byproduct of manufactured gas. Howard Garner

I usually buy my drill bits from Micro-Mark, who advertise them as "high speed steel." Are these good to use in the MiniMate? Any other suggestions for drill bits? Many thanks. Jim Brewer All

wrote: My educated guess is that some of the commodities needed somebody inside the tank to clean it out. They will use steam cleaners or other methods to empty and clean it. Manfred

Was their gas the result of coke production? Something I have always wondered about.. Yes, That was the most common source of coke. The Lowell (Mass.) Gas Works shut down in the late 1970's

Am looking for more information of the cars of the Pure Carbonic company. Here's an image of one such

Try this Richard -   Shell-and-tube heat exchangers, and some large, industrial liquid heaters have their tube bundles in a single pass (steam in the top connection through internal copper U-tubes

From my summers in the steel mill, I don't remember any steel production liquid byproducts, just slag, but coke production had a lot of byproducts. Maybe and educated guess can be made, loads

Thanks, Tony. SGL

--- On Thu, 2/26/09, ed_mines <ed_mines@...> wrote: Any idea where the coke was made? In the days before cross country pipelines, many areas were served by "coal gas" companies, with those huge

Dennis, you're assuming this car was in some sort of oil service, but (as I pointed out in my post) it was stenciled for loading with non- regulatory commodities only and had frangible disk vents

wrote: Everyone seems to be of the opinion that this plate is a cleanout; I have a different take on the situation. I may be the only person on this list who has ever had to enter a tankcar to clean