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Diagram showing construction of the DOT 117 tank car. The DOT-117 (TC-117 in Canada) is a type of unpressurized tank car in use on North American railroads. The DOT-117 design was developed in the aftermath of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013 in an effort to upgrade the specifications of the then-common DOT-111 and CPC-1232 designs. [1]
All time tank car total = 65 (including World War II U.S. Army cars). The following remain in existence: 8 Tank Car: Standard Oil Co. between 1903 & 1906 [140] Shell = 6,480 US gal (24,500 L; 5,400 imp gal), dome ≈ 136 US gal (510 L; 113 imp gal). Arch bar trucks. Originally, a Union Tank Car Co. standard gauge Class V (frameless) tank car ...
A DOT-111 tank car, specification 111A100W1, constructed by fusion welding carbon steel.This car has a capacity of 30,110 US gallons (113,979 L; 25,071.8 imp gal), a test pressure of 100 psi (690 kPa), a tare weight of 65,000 pounds (29,500 kg) and a load limit of 198,000 pounds (89,800 kg).
The tank car owners — which are generally the chemical companies, other shippers and leasing companies rather than the railroads — have long resisted a more aggressive upgrade schedule because of the roughly $135,000 price tag of a stronger DOT-117 tank car. About 25,000 DOT-111 tank cars are still in use, according to the Association of ...
DOT-111 tank car; DOT-117 tank car; U. UAC TurboTrain This page was last edited on 6 May 2021, at 18:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
1903: Tank-car companies develop construction safety standards. More than 10,000 tank cars are in operation. 1915: A classification system is developed by the tank-car industry to ensure the correct match of car type to product being shipped. Some 50,000 tank cars are in use. 1930: 140,000 tank cars transport some 103 commodities.
The effort aimed to increase transparency and change the industry’s compensation structure, said Ross Margulies, partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a law firm specializing in health care.
In response to growing safety concerns surrounding increasing levels of hazardous tank car shipments, in 2014 Greenbrier introduced the “Tank Car of the Future,” a new generation of tank cars featuring safety enhancements that were adopted by PHMSA as part of a new industry standard, the DOT-117 tank car. [23]