Odd tank car

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ndbprr

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Posted by ndbprr on Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:45 PM

My 1/00 ORER lists it as one of 211 tank cars - #268-288 capable of hauling 127,000 #, AAR Mech. Designtaion T. Knowing Equistar they probably carry liquified Ethylene gas used in the making of plastic like polyethylene.

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:14 PM

Yea I was thinking it was an Natural Gas tanker myself, just couldn't confirm it, as i couldn't see the safety tags. but it was obvious that it was either a liquid gas tanker or an compressed gas tanker, there's several clues to that on the design. I'm betting liquid NG tanker myself.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:41 PM

NPCX is Equistar Chemicals LP. I know they're big in plastics.

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ckape

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Odd tank car

Posted by ckape on Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:04 PM

I just came across this picture of a rather odd-looking tank car. Does anybody know what it transports or have any other information on it?

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/npcx269.jpg

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