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Most 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.
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