I thought the Southern Pacific burned Bunker C in steam locomotives. It did have to be warmed up to make it flow. And then there was that oil-rock in Utah that moved in hopper cars... I forget now

Wasn't "natural gasoline" a volatile product that at one point was separated at the well head ? Sunshine made a Warren tank car model that carried it. I wonder why they don't just remove the volatiles

Jon Miller wrote: "Going with an old brain I seem to remember [Bunker C] had no other use until plastic's came along." Not true. Bunker C (the Navy called it "Navy Special Fuel Oil") was a common

Jim Betz writes: "I'm having trouble locating pics of the tank cars in crude oil service on the web. Any links/suggestions would be appreciated. Or if there is a book I need to buy ..." "As soon

Going with an old brain I seem to remember it had no other use until plastic's came along. I have one word for you Ben, plastic! -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in

Going with an old brain I seem to remember it had no other use until plastic's came along. I have one word for you Ben, plastic! -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in

Jim your question asks about the transition ere. I think Tony has been pretty clear that by then crude tended to move in pipelines. But in the early years, before pipelines were build, crude did move

---In STMFC@..., <b.hom@...> wrote : Not so fast, my friend. Bunker C is NOT crude oil. It's referred to a residual fuel as it's what's left after the more volatile cuts of crude have been boiled

Jim Betz wrote: "There are some uses of crude that a pipeline can not be justified for - such as many industrial steam boilers for heating large buildings. Yes, diesel was replacing those in the

Tony and all, � Points noted.� Thanks. � My research shows that tank cars in crude service were primarily "generic" such as UTLX and GATX cars -

Carl How quickly people seem to have forgotten the lax environmental controls of the steam era. I grew up in New Jersey where paint on automobiles would blister and peel away simply when the cars

As soon as any oil field is very productive, pipelines were built to transport crude to refineries, a far cheaper means of transportation. In the transition era, there was little crude oil moving by

Hi, I'm having trouble locating pics of the tank cars in crude oil service on the web. Any links/suggestions would be appreciated. Or if there is a book I need to buy

Not really. The chlorine would dissipate. In contact with water, chlorine gas would disproportionate to give a mixture of hydrochloric acid and hypochlorus acid (HCl and HClO). (Add alkalai and you

Chlorine gas (Cl2) in completely dry air is not very reactive, and not corrosive in and of itself. But, Cl2 is moderately soluble in water, where it readily disproportionates into equal quantities of

But escaping chlorine would exacerbate the rusting, wouldn¹t it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqiWqpjlUQ Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List

I have almost 50 scans of chlorine tank cars on my hard drive, and a number of them show various levels of RUST (corrosion) around the valve casings and from rust that drips down from the top

And if it leaks out, it's a gas and disperses into the air, rather than draining down the car side. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

Hi Richard, I think you’re asking about weathering effects on the OUTSIDE of the car. Because chlorine is so dangerous, I would expect that any leakage would be dealt with

Well, residual chlorine gas. You won't get that out unless you purge the tank with an inert (and dry) gas very thoroughly. Carl Gustafson