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Those cars were "box tank cars" AAR Class XT. They were used to carry all kinds of compressed gases not just CO2. Most of them belonged To Air Reduction Co. (Linde). I thank a few of them are still around. They are hard to spot because they look like ordinary XM's. They had tanks in the ends of the car and the valves were in the center behind sliding doors. From:
"qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: [CBQ] Eola Reclamation Plant article in Zephyr 62 Here's a small addendum to the article on the Eola Reclamation Plant in
Zephyr 62 for the BRHS members on this list.......................
In discussing the article with a customer today who is a mechanical
director of a large Chicago area car leasing company he recalled the "tank
within a box car" cars. His comment was they were used for CO2 shipments
and when walking past one in a yard they would be hissing and there would be a
cloud of condensation around the car. He was a carman and then foreman on the
EJE and C&NW before crossing over to the private car side of the
business.
Maybe thats why the heavily insulated CO2 service tank car was
developed.
Leo Phillipp
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