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What cars do railways use to transport sand??
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While in college in the mid 50's my roommate and I unloaded a 50' boxcar of sand for molds for the Fargo ND iron foundry. The sand was very fine, dry and piled about three feet high away from the doors. We used scoop shovels. I have seldom worked harder than that!
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