At 56 pounds per bushel; in a 286K car with a 60K tare weight you get slightly over 4035 bushels.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACD Murphy Siding I thought the spped limit for kicking cars was 143 mph? and require 88 gigawatts of power
Murphy Siding I thought the spped limit for kicking cars was 143 mph?
I thought the spped limit for kicking cars was 143 mph?
and require 88 gigawatts of power
For anybody who missed it:
"The Future" was 17 October 2015 (Last Saturday)....
(from "Back to the Future Part II")
M636C
M636C BaltACD Murphy Siding I thought the spped limit for kicking cars was 143 mph? and require 88 gigawatts of power For anybody who missed it: "The Future" was 17 October 2015 (Last Saturday).... (from "Back to the Future Part II") M636C
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From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
Marty McFly: Where are we? When are we?
Doc: We're descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 pm, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015.
Marty McFly: 2015? You mean we're in the future?
Jennifer: Future? Marty, what do you mean? How can we be in the future?
Marty McFly: Uh, Jennifer, um, I don't know how to tell you this, but I... you're in a time machine.
Jennifer: And this is the year '2015'?
Doc: October 21st, 2015.
From: http://www.michaeljfoxdatabase.com/reviews-synopses-2/synopses/back-to-the-future/
"It [the screen] comes up [from being black] with Marty driving through a corn field, running into a scarecrow that gets stuck on his windshield and finally crashing into a barn. . . .
The owner of the diner laughs when he sees Marty’s red vest. “You jump ship, kid?” . . .
One of them sees Marty’s vest and says, “Look at this. The dork thinks he’s gonna drown.” Even the boy next to Marty laughs at that."
- Paul North.
Norris, the good news is that covered hopper cars have partitions in them to divide the car--so a leak could empty one compartment, but not the entire car.Somewhere the math is deficient, as modern grain cars haul anywhere from 5150 to 5200 cubic feet of payload (variations depending on carbuilder and taking into consideration the 286000-pound gross rail load).If you were to see a car leaking badly enough to produce the long pyramid you described, I'd urge you to call your railroad's 800 number. It's probably safe to say that such a leak somehow occurred en route, as no car department would allow a car leaking that badly to depart a terminal. The leak would probably be due to an improperly-closed discharge gate.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
From experience I can say that a small hole in a container full of particulate material may well not leak at all when at rest; but any bump or vibration of the container will cause material to start leaking. Coarser particles such as corn especially. Thus a car inspector might not find a small leak.
Best wildlife feeding system ever devised. BNSF deals with the "diners" outside Havre/ Glacier National Park, including the drunken bears overdoing it on fermenting corn.
Hey BooBoo, what say we head on down to the tracks and do some railfanning? If we hurry, we can still get in on happy hour.
Growing conditions can alter test weight of corn dramaticaly. I have 35 years span growing corn and bean and test weight can vary from 51# to 62# per bushel. Anyone that dealt with the corn leaking was or is thanking their lucky stars it wasnt soybeans, my keyboard will not describe the aroma of wet soybeans!
poneykeg Growing conditions can alter test weight of corn dramaticaly. I have 35 years span growing corn and bean and test weight can vary from 51# to 62# per bushel. Anyone that dealt with the corn leaking was or is thanking their lucky stars it wasnt soybeans, my keyboard will not describe the aroma of wet soybeans!
Johnny
I would guess that his keyboard knows what a hill of beans smells like.
(Sarcasm font wished for..)Perfect environment for the bean-counters that run some railroads.
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