Can someone tell me what US made modern commodities are shipped in box cars. The 2nd part of the question is along the lines of how many box cars of say of tires would you say a typical factory would ship in a day/ week Maybe I’m in the dark but I can not see any warehouse receiving more than one 60 ft boxcar a week of say tires or frozen meals I know this is a very open question thanks
Baghdad firefighterCan someone tell me what US made modern commodities are shipped in box cars. The 2nd part of the question is along the lines of how many box cars of say of tires would you say a typical factory would ship in a day/ week Maybe I’m in the dark but I can not see any warehouse receiving more than one 60 ft boxcar a week of say tires or frozen meals I know this is a very open question thanks
Here's a 10-second list. As to your second question, a good-sized tire warehouse might receive a dozen boxcars weekly of tires.
Manufactured Goods:
Metals and Minerals
Agricultural Products
Scrap materials:
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This should help.
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A busy warehouse could recieve several boxcars a day..
Your tire manufacturer could ship several boxcars a day..You see the tire shipments would be needed daily by the automobile manufacturer(s) and tire distribution centers.
A food distributor in a large city could receive 3-4 boxcars a day plus reefers since a distributor can serve the surrounding cities and towns..The distributors customer base will include grocery stores,restaurants,box stores that sell groceries,schools,convenient stores etc
Its a never ending supply process.
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Some other commodities are canned foods, tomato products (various types of packaging), wine, beer, whey, powdered milk.
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Baghdad firefighterCan someone tell me what US made modern commodities are shipped in box cars.
Do you want all 10 or 20 thousand commodities?
Anything that is packaged on a pallet or can be handled by a forklift can and does move in a boxcar.
The 2nd part of the question is along the lines of how many box cars of say of tires would you say a typical factory would ship in a day/ week
As many as it produces. There is really no way to answer that. Pick a number.
Maybe I’m in the dark but I can not see any warehouse receiving more than one 60 ft boxcar a week of say tires or frozen meals
Are you asking about shipping or recieving?
An auto plant in full production can recieve dozens of boxcars of parts a day and may have warehouses all over the area around the plant. So it is possible that a warehouse could get 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 boxcars of tires.
Same with reefers. A warehouse in Texas I know distributed french fries for a local fast food chain. They regularlky recieved multiple reefers of frozen taters.
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Hi All,
You're absolutely correct when you talk about tire factories. However, the numbers are staggering. Depending on the era, and the product mix of the factory, typical capacities of a tire factory would be in the 10,000 to 25,000 tires a DAY range. During the eighties, we used to a lot of 86' box cars and the old 75' Southern tabacco cars specially fitted with roof vents to let the tire fumes out. Earthmover tires were moved in topless boxcars. The rest of the tires went in any combination of regular length boxcars of the day. At one point, our plant made motorcycle, rear farm, front farm, bias truck, radial truck, blackwall and whitewall bias car, radial passenger and earthmover tires. Our average production was 23,000 tires a day. So the product lines also dictate where they all go. Caterpillar and John Deere and obviously the big four (or three) were the largest single destinations of our tires. Our plant also has a distribution center, so it was common to have INBOUND cars from other plants with different tire lines than ours.
Mike
What about concrete? There's a concrete distributor right by the apartment that is rail served (the other one isn't even though it's bigger). I hardley ever see trucks there, but there are always a crud load of ACF 2 bays. Maybe this week I will go down there and take a small inventory list of the car numbers to see how long they sit there. They probably have around 2 dozen. I've never seen the place get switched. Not that it doesn't I just haven't seen the crew spotting cars, I've seen trains sitting on the companies spur. Back to the point though they get concrete shipped to them in the mentioned ACF 2 bays (I think around 3500 cu. ft.) and it gets put in the large 3-bay semi trailers and hauled off to who knows where. I haven't been able to really find any info on this business so I can't help you much more than that. I plan to have a concrete distributor on my layout.
Most likely the hoppers are carrying cement (a component of concrete).