Car movement

[nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org]

Harry,

Thank you!

Jim Brewer
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
  To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
  Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:42 PM
  Subject: Re: Car movement


  Jim:
  The phosphate rock went in covered hoppers - NS had 200,  N&W
  put multitudes of the 172,000 series in phosphate service, and
  NS Rwy. leased some covered hoppers usually in salt service
  from the Genesee & Wyoming.  Southern didn't participate.  The
  SUPERPHOSPHATE  was shipped in covered hoppers and box cars
  that had the doors plugged with grain doors,  a cardboard sheet with
  metal strips that could be nailed to the interior.  Phosphoric Acid 
  was in leased UTLX tank cars, later on in TGSX tank cars,  and a few
  shipments to Phillips Petroleum in PSPX tankers. 
                                                                   Harry Bundy

  P.S.  The GNWR covered hoppers were a pain to deal with -- their
           tare weight was about 65,000 lbs. which meant that you couldn't
           get 100 tons in the car without exceeding the then-maximum
           weight on rail of 263,000 lbs,  The rate was based on 100 tons,
           so it was money thrown away if the car had less than 100 tons.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  ________________________________________
  NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
  To change your subscription go to
  http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20060410/6b90823f/attachment.html