Let's turn up the houselights and ask questions

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

yes, it was undoubtably Liquid propane gas being transported. LPG, the stuff BBq's run on. it is jsut like butane, it is a liquid when it is sealed off from air, but as soon as air mixes into it, it evaportaes into a gas.

Try this at home... No don't...

Take a household lighter and ajust the -/+ to the max it will possibly go.

i'll stop this demontration, i'll end up getting sued,

lets try anohter,

Got to a variety store and buy a can of butaine. now bring it home, pu***he little nozzel downand spray some onto a peice of paper, it will come out like wtaer, but evaporate within 1 second at most.

don't use your hands. butane is very cold, and will frost bite your hand!

The big heat plume that just lit up NORAD was not another North Korean railway accident, nor was it the launch of the long feared Canadian nuclear first strike.....but kevinsthe1stdegreeburninintensivecareman having a butane incident.......

I looked this up in my haz mat book Ed sent me - it sounded like if this stuff was exposed to just a smile - it would go poof! Driver was reading it to me and included that MIllie should back up about a block, just in case! [xx(]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrnut282

Can you do the Tarzan yell?



You Carol Burnett fans will know what I mean.

You are so smart!!!! That is exactly who I had in mind when I wrote that!

Go to the head of the class!

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

yes, it was undoubtably Liquid propane gas being transported. LPG, the stuff BBq's run on. it is jsut like butane, it is a liquid when it is sealed off from air, but as soon as air mixes into it, it evaportaes into a gas.

Try this at home... No don't...

Take a household lighter and ajust the -/+ to the max it will possibly go.

i'll stop this demontration, i'll end up getting sued,

lets try anohter,

Got to a variety store and buy a can of butaine. now bring it home, pu***he little nozzel downand spray some onto a peice of paper, it will come out like wtaer, but evaporate within 1 second at most.

don't use your hands. butane is very cold, and will frost bite your hand!

The big heat plume that just lit up NORAD was not another North Korean railway accident, nor was it the launch of the long feared Canadian nuclear first strike.....but kevinsthe1stdegreeburninintensivecareman having a butane incident.......

[Anonymous]

yes, it was undoubtably Liquid propane gas being transported. LPG, the stuff BBq's run on. it is jsut like butane, it is a liquid when it is sealed off from air, but as soon as air mixes into it, it evaportaes into a gas.

Try this at home... No don't...

Take a household lighter and ajust the -/+ to the max it will possibly go.

i'll stop this demontration, i'll end up getting sued,

lets try anohter,

Got to a variety store and buy a can of butaine. now bring it home, pu***he little nozzel downand spray some onto a peice of paper, it will come out like wtaer, but evaporate within 1 second at most.

don't use your hands. butane is very cold, and will frost bite your hand!

[rrnut282]

Can you do the Tarzan yell?



You Carol Burnett fans will know what I mean.

[Hugh Jampton]

I suspect the hoppers were being illegally moved. All the ones I ever saw had a "Do not move with doors open" stencil on them. The doors aren't watertight, so any water will quickly drain out anyway.

[CShaveRR]

Sis, I think that's probably liquefied petroleum gas, fairly commonly transported by rail, and used for lots of different things (including, possibly, backyard barbecues). It's a gas normally, but is transported in tank cars under several hundred pounds of pressure, which liquefies it. That makes the whole tank act like an aerosol can if it would be punctured or incinerated.

Maybe an old buddy of mine, who works with the Holland Company, can tell me about the snuggly floor. Sounds like it would be perfect for kitties!

The Optimodal thing(y) you saw is probably an intermodal tank container...they're almost always 20 feet in length, and the framework just makes them rectangular so they can be carried or stacked (with restrictions, I'm sure!) like any other container.

BC

[Mookie]

Saw some open hopper cars with bottom dumps. The dumps were open as they traveled. Drying them out? Maybe had standing water in them?

Liquified Petroleum - for making bombs? Said if it leaked you should be a mile away. What do we do with this? It is really dangerous! Probably not as bad as edible tallow, but still...... [}:)]

Sign on side of car - Holland Load Snugging Floor Action - what does this floor do?

Optimodal - cute little package - looked to be very heavy - small, fat tank-types - with bracing around them. for?????

Saw lots of Kitty Litter (CATX) and.......UPS Trucks on flat cars.....rub, rub.....

That should keep you busy for about 15 min.....

Mookie

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