| 30,000
Gallon Ethanol Tank Cars
 
For
years, railroads have hauled ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, as it is better known.
Ethanol is mostly made from corn and is used as additive to oxygenate gasoline
to reduce pollution. It has also been mixed 85 percent ethanol to 15 percent gasoline
and used as an alternative to gasoline. Most of this usage was in the Midwest
in states such as Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Indiana where
there are considerable crops of corn grown. In 2004, it was mandated that ethanol
be used to replace MBTE as an additive to oxygenate all gasoline used in the state
of California. Since California is not a corn producing state, the ethanol has
to be shipped in from states that do have large corn crops and ethanol plants.
This ethanol traffic boomed in 2004 as several million gallons of ethanol is needed
each week by refineries in the Los Angeles Harbor area alone and 800 million gallons
is needed
in the state each year. To meet growing market demand for new tank
cars, UTLX Manufacturing, Inc. is expanding production capacity with a green-field
manufacturing facility at Alexandria, Louisiana. UTLX 205400 is the first car
in the initial production
run from the new plant. The 30,000 gallon (shell
full) car is sized to stage the greatest number of cars at a producer's loading
rack and still meet the 263,000-pound gross rail load limit. The car's coupled
length of 59'4” and its 119 3/16” I.D. tank provide shipping efficiency
within AAR Plate “C” clearance requirements. The Funnel-Flow® design
facilitates complete bottom unloading.
The car is scaled from manufacturer's drawings and includes newly-required reflectivity
markings.
11873
and 11883 will represent cars from earlier UTLX production, with a slightly different
paint scheme.
| | Key
Features: | - Era:
2005-2006
- All
NEW tooling
- Fully
assembled
- Scaled
from manufacturer's drawings
- Weighted
for optimal performance
|
| Road Name | Road
# | Image | MSRP | Our
$ | Part
# | | Undecorated | n/a | | $16.98 | $13.59 | ATH-11870 |
| Procor | 43929 |  | $16.98 | $13.59 | ATH-11876 |
| Procor | 43932 | | $16.98 | $13.59 | ATH-11878 |
| Chief
Ethanol | 89983 |  | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10580 |
| 89985 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10581 |
| 89991 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10582 |
| CHS | 255001 |  | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10583 |
| 255020 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10584 |
| 255057 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10585 |
| DODX | 14400 |  | $17.98 |  | ATH-10586 |
| 14436 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10587 |
| 14489 | $17.98 | | ATH-10588 |
| GATX/Abengoa | 202259 |  | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10589 |
| 202431 | $17.98 | | ATH-10590 |
| 202633 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10591 |
| NATX | 302701 |  | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10592 |
| 302738 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10593 |
| 302749 | $17.98 | $14.39 | ATH-10594 |
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