what industry would use chlorine cars?
Paper, sewrage plants, swimming pools, water purification
Don't forget laundry detergent.
Springfield PA
Chemical Plants, Refineries, Plastic Manufacturers, Treatment Plants, Industrial Service Companies, Industrial Gas Suppliers.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks.
the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic.
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mark in PA
I worked for a company that was next door to Clorox. Clorox receives their bleach and drain cleaner in tank cars at their distribution sites around the U.S. Why???? Bleach and drain cleaner are weight heavy products. To reduce shipping costs they ship by rail to their distribution warehouses.
They receive their cartons and bottles by truck, empty. They unload the bottles/cartons from the trucks into the warehouse. They unload the tank cars into the building. The run their filling lines, filling the bottles and repackage the bottles into the cartons. The filled bottles and cartons are loaded onto trucks and shipped to grocery warehouses to sell to the public.
To model this type of operation you would need 2 or 3 spots to place tank cars in the back of the building. In the front of the building you could have dock doors all the way across the front. Some of these doors would be inbound and the rest would be outbound finished packaged oproduct.
I used to cover City Council in Corpus Christi, Texas as a TV reporter. I rfemember a few years back a city manager's report about the economy of paying demurrage on rail tankcars beinging chlorine to the water purification plant. The city found it less costly to keep the cars on the plant spur as storage, rather than attempting to pump out to another tank.
My corollary for model railroad operation would be that a chlorine tankcar would ALWAYS be at the unloading spot. A new full car would be scheduled to be delivered in advance of the old car being emptied, and would sit in place until the nold car was empty and then take its place.
My "industry/ traffic/ commodity" notes mention paper pulping. Anyone list that already?
http://www.icis.com/v2/chemicals/9075193/chlorine.html
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When I was a switchman a number of years ago we would spot a car of chlorine at the city water works facility every month or so.
kh37 theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks. the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic. time to get an mc d'ees unsweetened tea mark in PA
Likewise, Hasa, Inc. in Eloy, Arizona receives several tank cars of chlorine a month for the same purpose. Most bear HOKX reporting marks (Occidental Chemical). Walthers makes an HO version of the car.
John Timm
desertdog kh37: theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks. the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic. time to get an mc d'ees unsweetened tea mark in PA Likewise, Hasa, Inc. in Eloy, Arizona receives several tank cars of chlorine a month for the same purpose. Most bear HOKX reporting marks (Occidental Chemical). Walthers makes an HO version of the car. John Timm
kh37: theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks. the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic. time to get an mc d'ees unsweetened tea mark in PA
Something to keep in mind about the Walthers tankcar is that it is a non-pressure tankcar (it does not haul chlorine). The prototypes I have seen haul sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
ericsp desertdog: kh37: theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks. the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic. time to get an mc d'ees unsweetened tea mark in PA Likewise, Hasa, Inc. in Eloy, Arizona receives several tank cars of chlorine a month for the same purpose. Most bear HOKX reporting marks (Occidental Chemical). Walthers makes an HO version of the car. John Timm Something to keep in mind about the Walthers tankcar is that it is a non-pressure tankcar (it does not haul chlorine). The prototypes I have seen haul sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
desertdog: kh37: theres an industry in williamsport pa next to the lycoming valley's newberry yard called Lonza that makes the cholrine tablets for swimming pools and other "shock" products. they receive tank cars of chlorine and other chemicals it's a interresting chemical plant with pipes, storage tanks and numerous tracks. the lycoming valley and the rest of the north shore is very modelgenic. time to get an mc d'ees unsweetened tea mark in PA Likewise, Hasa, Inc. in Eloy, Arizona receives several tank cars of chlorine a month for the same purpose. Most bear HOKX reporting marks (Occidental Chemical). Walthers makes an HO version of the car. John Timm
You are correct. The cars that show up at Hasa are painted / decorated like the Wathers car but are pressurized. The Atlas 17,360 tank car is appropriate for the prototype, with the proper dome, although I do not know offhand if it available in the HOKX version.