Report: Industry proposes to phase out older tank cars

[madokie]

7. Been seeing some long trains full of tank cars

coming through here going from north to south lately. Mostly newer tank cars but with some obviously older tank cars mixed in with the new ones. While sitting waiting for one of them to pass the other day I noticed the tank cars are about 8 ft in diameter and 40 ft long, best I can tell observing them passing at about 45 mph or so. I would say there were close to 100 of those cars per train. That would be a lot of oil.


ETA: Back of napkin figures says that would be approximately 350 barrels of oil per tanker car. If there were 100 tankers that would mean that roughly 3.5 million barrels of oil was transported. Not bad for a days work, huh.

Early, not much java yet so I may be wrong in my napkinese