Lucky Lager is the favoured cheap choice of the desperate 'round these parts.
Tried it once, tastes as if it were produced by equines...
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Most fuel tankers for gas station deliveries are still multi compartments. They have 4 seperate tanks on them that way they can drop all 3 grades at one time. Normally the 2 largest of the 4 are filled with 87 octane fuel. My boss has 2 dedicated fuel tankers for our own fleet tanks. They have 1 8000 gallon tank for diesel on them. Yes we are starting to haul our own fuel to our terminal. Why pay someone to haul it when we are already permitted to haul haz-mat anyway.
In my college days it was Boones Farm and Ripple.
Mad Dog 20/20- My sister in law used to shoplift that crap from the 7-11 near where they lived. Horrible stuff but she would drink anything.
Local delivery trucks often carried several types of fuel for their various customers. We had a repurposed fire tanker with three compartments. We would have liked to cut holes so the three worked together, but it was actually three completely separate tanks welded together to appear as one. Odds are if we had made the cuts, we would have found multiple leaks...
Multi-commodity ships still exist. Heard one report in to "Seaway Clayton" on the St Lawrence River some years ago with an interesting collection of liquid cargos, all flammable...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
In a similar vein, a shipping line known as Parcel Tankers operated compartmented tankers that handled multiple commodities in a single hull.
"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)
cx500 It used to be many small towns would have a bulk fuel dealer supplied by rail. Erratic delivery by the railroads meant most of them eventually switched to trucks for delivery from the refineries. For the railroads, it was easier to lose the business than make an effort to serve a customer in a regular and predictable fashion.
It used to be many small towns would have a bulk fuel dealer supplied by rail. Erratic delivery by the railroads meant most of them eventually switched to trucks for delivery from the refineries. For the railroads, it was easier to lose the business than make an effort to serve a customer in a regular and predictable fashion.
Many of those small towns were also on branch lines that were (at best) marginally profitable, and even those started to lose money as highways took away the mail and merchandise traffic, leaving only grain (which in Canada was a black hole thanks to the Crow Rate) and a few other bulk commodities like fuel.
Losing the business made it that much easier to apply for abandonment.
Gotta love the good ol' days of demarketing, divided compartment tank cars were just collateral damage.
The overall capacity of tank cars in the 50-70 ton era was nothing like the much larger tank cars of today. The number of domes reflected much smaller segregated potions of the tank, each potentially containing a different grade of product. That smaller volume was easily handled by newer highway tankers.
Another site noted that the compartments might have three grades of the same commodity, all headed for the same vendor.
As for the wine, when I was a teen I worked in a liquor store. The local "wine connoisseurs" would come in and but the cheapest wine we had (usually Thunderbird - a white wine going for a whole 69 cents) and a five cent package of red Koolaid, flavor not important. They now had red wine...
I remember seeing a 3 dome tank car on the NYC Putnam Division in the early 60s. There was a small chemical plant in suburban New York, but I don't know if that is what it was used for.
samfp1943 BaltACD caldreamer When did the railroads stop running the triple dome tank cars? I have never seen one on any train that I watched or on any video of any train. Bigger question - did the 3 dome tanks haul single or multiple commodities. Can't speak to all multi-dome tank cars. But a long time ago in a galazy far,far away; when I was in High School in Memphis. I had a classmate who's family was in the wine and liquor business. They received wine in three dome, and other multiple domed tank cars, the capacity was not huge, by any means. The wine was used to package several really, cheap wines. NightTrain, MadDog20/20, are a couple , I can recall, and several others [basicly what would have been referred to as 'head busters' ]. They always seemed to have a couple of those tank cars hooked up out back. Those three domed cars were probably in dedicated haulage, for food grades. The chemical Companies, seemed to favor the single domed cars, and occasionally, two domed cars could be seen around the chemical plants in the area. But recently, I've seen some larger tank cars, with two domes moving on trains around here on BNSF.
BaltACD caldreamer When did the railroads stop running the triple dome tank cars? I have never seen one on any train that I watched or on any video of any train. Bigger question - did the 3 dome tanks haul single or multiple commodities.
caldreamer When did the railroads stop running the triple dome tank cars? I have never seen one on any train that I watched or on any video of any train.
Bigger question - did the 3 dome tanks haul single or multiple commodities.
Can't speak to all multi-dome tank cars. But a long time ago in a galazy far,far away; when I was in High School in Memphis. I had a classmate who's family was in the wine and liquor business. They received wine in three dome, and other multiple domed tank cars, the capacity was not huge, by any means. The wine was used to package several really, cheap wines. NightTrain, MadDog20/20, are a couple , I can recall, and several others [basicly what would have been referred to as 'head busters' ]. They always seemed to have a couple of those tank cars hooked up out back. Those three domed cars were probably in dedicated haulage, for food grades.
The chemical Companies, seemed to favor the single domed cars, and occasionally, two domed cars could be seen around the chemical plants in the area. But recently, I've seen some larger tank cars, with two domes moving on trains around here on BNSF.
In decades gone by, the quantity being shipped was much smaller than what is the norm today. The 30K gallon tank car of today was unheard of back in the days of yore.
In viewing the hookup of those 'tank cars out back'; were they hooked up to more than one hose at a time? Or was one hose used on 3 separate bottom discharge valves. One segment of the car could have NightTran, another segment of the car could have MadDog 20/20 and a 3rd segment could be loaded with 2 Buck Chuck.
I can't understand a car having the complex construction for 3 domes but the car only handling a single commodity - it doesn't make economic sense from the car owners perspective.
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caldreamerWhen did the railroads stop running the triple dome tank cars? I have never seen one on any train that I watched or on any video of any train.
When did the railroads stop running the triple dome tank cars? I have never seen one on any train that I watched or on any video of any train.
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