GWR had 24 cars used. Used them to Congress Park all the time.
Russ
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Sent: Thursday, 16 July, 2009 19:32
Subject: [CBQ] Molasses Tank cars
> Tank cars assigned to molasses service tend to be older,smaller capacity
> cars of whatever era you are studying.
> They generally are non insulated with either interior or exterior heater
> coils. The molasses usually goes into animal feed and sets up very hard in
> the cars and therefore the heater coils. In the 80s,90s and today
> molasses
> cars tend to ne what are referred to as HP20s or IXC 20s(Heater piped 20s
> or
> insulated exterior coiled 20s). Basically the industry used the oldest
> cars
> they could lease.
> Also of interest molasses does corrode carbon steel when heated to make it
> flow out of the car. I've seen many a molasses car so thin on the top that
> a man would be afraid to walk on the top for fear of breaking thru thu
> the
> thin remaining shell. Federal rule HM 201 solved that and many have gone
> to
> scrap.
>
> Leo Phillipp
> 40 years(and still going) in the RR industry of which 21+was in the tank
> car fleet management side.
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