Northern Snowman Wrote:
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> Fred Wrote:
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> > Dunno, last week, according to the scanner, a
> > train passing thru town had to cut out, and
> leave
> > on a siding, a tank car because the "top was
> > open". The dude sent out from the car
> department
> > wasn't able to fix the issue, and the car was
> left
> > on the siding. Since no emergency/haz-mat
> issues
> > were declared, I suppose it can be assumed that
> > the contents were non-volatile. But, if a car
> can
> > be shipped "with the top open"...
>
>
> Just because a hatch on a tank car is open does
> not mean that it's contents are able to escape.
> Not all tank cars haul haz-mat. Most all tank cars
> have a hatch that just covers the valves that
> actually "open" the car.
>
> A crew will still set a car out as a precaution
> anyway when a hatch cover is found to be open.

Well, OK, the scenario went pretty much as you point out, the car "with the open top" was ultimately cut out and left on the siding.
But... (according to the radio) Main track 1 was out of service for some 4 hours while all this happened. Gotta wait to cut the car out, gotta wait for the dude from the car shop to show up, gotta wait for the car shop dude to relay that he can't fix the situation, gotta wait for the car to be placed on the siding, gotta wait for the train to back up to the rest of the train, gotta wait for the the following train to inch up to the train in question to "push the button" on the FRED.
All in all, it was an interesting event in railroad operations.