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Cryogenic Reefers

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Cryogenic Reefers
Posted by caldreamer on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 9:53 PM

I recently saw a couple of Cryo-Trans reefers on a southbound train stopped waiting to get into the NS Hagerstown, Maryland yard. Do not see them very often, but they are still in active service.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 10:50 PM

caldreamer
Do not see them very often, but they are still in active service.

Minus one:

 ”When Empty Return To…” by Doug Lilly, on Flickr

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 6:14 AM

There is a facility at the west end of what used to be Forrest Yard at Buntyn in Memphis that regularly sees these cars.  They are very common in NS consists east of that point.

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Posted by caldreamer on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 6:36 AM

This is one of the 70 foot cryogenic reefers that I saw.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=263230

 

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 12:03 PM

caldreamer

This is one of the 70 foot cryogenic reefers that I saw.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=263230

 

 

Doesn't look like the one in the gon.

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Posted by AEP528 on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 12:13 PM

maxman

 

 
caldreamer

This is one of the 70 foot cryogenic reefers that I saw.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=263230

 

 

 

 

Doesn't look like the one in the gon.

 

Is there a picture of a reefer in a gon? I only saw a picture of a tank in a gon.

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Posted by caldreamer on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 2:02 PM

Any reference to a tank car or reefer in a gon has ABSOUTLY NOTHING to do with my post about the 70 foot Cryo-Trans reefers that I saw.  Please see my second post with link to a picture of one of these cars.

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 3:42 PM

caldreamer
Any reference to a tank car or reefer in a gon has ABSOUTLY NOTHING to do with my post about the 70 foot Cryo-Trans reefers that I saw.  Please see my second post with link to a picture of one of these cars.

Yup, I understand that.  But I thought that the tank in the gon might be one of those Transformer thingsSmile

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 4:27 PM

caldreamer
ABSOUTLY NOTHING

Well, since I'm the one that posted the cryogenic tank car I assume all responsibility for my error.

I saw the prefix 'cryo' and didn't think it through. The link to the photo would have helped if included in the first post.

My bad Embarrassed

I have to leave the photo up, though, just to retain the context of the thread.

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Posted by NittanyLion on Thursday, August 31, 2023 8:39 AM

Yes, but no.

They're regular mechanical reefers.  Despite the "cryo" in "Cryo-Trans," they're not running cryogenic reefers. The cryogenic reefers that were built in the 90s were rebuilt as mechanical. Despite the world having plenty of gaseous CO2 laying around, liquid CO2 wasn't cost effective at the time. 

Cryo-Trans itself isn't long for the world, as they were acquired by Lineage Logistics about two years ago.

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