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The info you have all been guessing wrong about.

Author: Northern Snowman

Date: 02-21-2013 - 19:32

Diesel is usually shipped as a combustable which does not require buffers. I would have to see the shipping papers or placards to know for sure but my guess is that crude oil is shipped as a combustable also. No buffers are required for them then.

As for required buffers, if a train doesn't have enough cars to fulfill the buffer requirement more buffers cars do not need to be added. A unit Haz-Mat train by definition wouldn't have buffer cars in the train. (It is a unit train of only Haz-Mat cars) The buffers are added but technically not required. A locomotive running or not cannot be used as a buffer.

Some Haz-Mat only requires one buffer car while other require five. Some Haz-Mat shipments can't be next to other types of Haz-Mat shipments. A certain number of loads of certain types of one Haz-Mat shipments calls for speed restrictions. It gets complicated. This is not a can of worms to be opened here.

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The info you have all been guessing wrong about.	Northern Snowman	02-21-2013 - 19:32

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Northern Snowman Wrote:
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> Diesel is usually shipped as a combustable which
> does not require buffers. I would have to see the
> shipping papers or placards to know for sure but
> my guess is that crude oil is shipped as a
> combustable also. No buffers are required for them
> then.
> 
> As for required buffers, if a train doesn't have
> enough cars to fulfill the buffer requirement more
> buffers cars do not need to be added. A unit
> Haz-Mat train by definition wouldn't have buffer
> cars in the train. (It is a unit train of only
> Haz-Mat cars) The buffers are added but
> technically not required. A locomotive running or
> not cannot be used as a buffer.
> 
> Some Haz-Mat only requires one buffer car while
> other require five. Some Haz-Mat shipments can't
> be next to other types of Haz-Mat shipments. A
> certain number of loads of certain types of one
> Haz-Mat shipments calls for speed restrictions. It
> gets complicated. This is not a can of worms to be
> opened here.

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