SD60MAC9500 Murphy Siding Is liquid asphalt by train really a thing? Sure is and has been for decades. SD70Dude pointed out its viscosity. It has to be heated around 250-300F to liquify.
Murphy Siding Is liquid asphalt by train really a thing?
Is liquid asphalt by train really a thing?
Sure is and has been for decades. SD70Dude pointed out its viscosity. It has to be heated around 250-300F to liquify.
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SD70Dude Liquid asphalt is about the consistency of tar, thicker than heavy fuel oil. Fairly difficult to ignite compared to lighter fuel oils, but obviously not impossible. In Canada it is not placarded as a dangerous good.
Liquid asphalt is about the consistency of tar, thicker than heavy fuel oil. Fairly difficult to ignite compared to lighter fuel oils, but obviously not impossible.
In Canada it is not placarded as a dangerous good.
It's placarded "hot" but there are no placement restrictions on it, loaded or empty.
There's a receiver at Tama IA that gets it. They attach steam lines to heat it up to empty the tank cars.
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Murphy Siding SD70Dude Liquid asphalt is about the consistency of tar, thicker than heavy fuel oil. Fairly difficult to ignite compared to lighter fuel oils, but obviously not impossible. In Canada it is not placarded as a dangerous good. Is it thin enough that it flows out of the tanl car when someone turns the spigot?
Is it thin enough that it flows out of the tanl car when someone turns the spigot?
I've never tried, but I suspect not at room temperature.
Lots of tank cars have steam coils to heat and thin the product before attempting to unload it. Glue, sulphur and corn syrup also come to mind, and I'm sure there are many, many more.
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tree68SD70Dude Liquid asphalt is about the consistency of tar, thicker than heavy fuel oil. If I remember correctly, we were discussing heating coils in cars not long ago.
There is a tank farm just across the track (the one Amtrak 27/28 uses) from the Amtrak station in Vancouver, WA. Whenever I have visited the station, about half of the time there is a tank car on the stub track with a steam hose attached and hissing away to get the asphalt out of the car.
SD70DudeLiquid asphalt is about the consistency of tar, thicker than heavy fuel oil.
If I remember correctly, we were discussing heating coils in cars not long ago.
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Murphy Siding Side note: a goofball I work with heard about it over lunch on Monday. He went outside expecting to see a big plume of smoke in the eastern sky, 60 miles away. He just wouldn't accept the concept of curvature of the earth.
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Absolutely. There's a large facility near Cortland, NY that's served by the Susquehanna. Much of the asphalt used in central NY probably comes through there. It's here: N 42 35' 29" W 76 9' 9"
UP derailed a train about an hour east of me in Sibley, Iowa on Sunday. The news said that a car full of liquid asphalt had caught fire, causing some evacuations. It's reported that they firemen were letting all the liquid asphalt burn itself out. That was causing a huge plume of black smoke. Is liquid asphalt by train really a thing? Side note: a goofball I work with heard about it over lunch on Monday. He went outside expecting to see a big plume of smoke in the eastern sky, 60 miles away. He just wouldn't accept the concept of curvature of the earth.
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