Western Railroad Discussion > New Tanks (at least clean ones)

Gibson Yard, Omaha, Sunday. Easy to catch gleam from the sun on those domed ends. I don't know for sure, but I assume these are for Ethanol. Nebraska just opened another ethanol plant, and will also open one more each month for the rest of the year.

WP

Love the clean ethanol cars. I can see them all over the place recently.

I bet it don't take long to for them to get tagged!!:(

ATSFDAVE

Haven't seen too many tagged methanol tanks, thankfully (any taggers reading this, please don't take it as a challenge)! Yes, those are/were reasonably new cars; the fact that there were placards on them suggest that they've been loaded at least once.

Tanks for posting your photo.

JMW

How many of these cars were there? I'm wondering what the reporting mark RANGE is---TILX 199020 is the closest car in the photo; what is the rest of the number-range? Thanks.

rbx551985 Wrote:
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> How many of these cars were there? I'm wondering
> what the reporting mark RANGE is---TILX 199020 is
> the closest car in the photo; what is the rest of
> the number-range? Thanks.

Hi, Rhett!

There are 49 cars in the immediate series (TILX 199012-199060) so far--numbers may go higher later.

However, the order of cars of which these 49 cars are a part contains no fewer than 1360 cars, many not yet built. Some are in the 198000 series; hard to tell where the others are lurking.

Carl