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May 10, 2019 at 6:33 pm #6241princessclyne69Participant
Just picked up some of the Tangent welded chemical tank cars (GATC 1952, 8k, uninsulated, with an expansion dome and a dome platform). There are two lettered for Vulcan Materials, which was the second owner of the Frontier Chemical plant southwest of Wichita on the Conway Springs-Hardtner branch. So if you have need for some chlorine shipments, here you go.
Chlorine went everywhere in the country, so some carloads could have been interchanged at Wichita, but a lot of them probably traveled on to Durand and points east, north and south.
This paint scheme would be good for 1966 to the 80s, at least.RG7
May 10, 2019 at 9:32 pm #9368madonnasuffolk30ParticipantRon,
As you know I’m on a Mopac branch line and I’m always looking for tank cars and other non-covered hoppers for my line. Is there an agriculture need for chlorine or what types of industries would use it that could be located on my branch? I keep waiting for fertilizer cars, but not sure what else I can use for my 1979 time frame.
Nate
May 11, 2019 at 2:33 am #9371princessclyne69ParticipantMost chlorine shipped in carloads went to large industrial users. I don’t know of ag uses. But chlorine was shipped in one-ton containers on those flat-looking cars, to municipal water treatment plants if nothing else. I shot a couple in Wichita en route to or from Frontier. If a water treatment plant had a siding, they could have received 8000 gallons at a time.
Frontier also made caustic soda, and various organic acids, which would have probably also been shipped in that type of tank car. Again, not a lot of ag uses but maybe I’m not thinking outside the box.
Ammonia would have been a good candidate, and it could have been shipped in that style of tank car. Probably not from the producers that were in the Tangent first round of paint schemes, though. Potentially other fertilizer and related chemicals also.
I don’t know the industries on the northern Kansas branches. Maybe the Circular 140 might have some clues.
RG7
May 11, 2019 at 4:41 pm #9372Bud MossParticipantNo ag uses I can think of unless for grain fumigation or large-scale water purification. Grain fumigation was typically with a bromine compound.
Jerry
May 11, 2019 at 4:42 pm #9373Bud MossParticipantTangent tank cars are amazing models. I have a tendency to buy them even if I don’t have a specific industry or shipper. They are considered bridge traffic. Jerry
May 18, 2019 at 7:28 pm #9383bargetanikaParticipantI don’t ever run my tangent tank cars, or my Kadee tank cars anymore. If you breathe on them wrong something breaks. My layout is small and can only take 30 cars at I time. To run them all at one time or another I have to pack them on and off. Tangent and Kadee tank cars, and the Intermountain welded 10,000 gal cars, can’t take that handling. They are staying packed up until I move someplace with room for a 200 car layout.
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