While I already knew everything you stated in the first two sentences, the third one added to my knowledge today. Thanks for the insight.Molten sulphur is a pale yellow crystalline solid and smells like rotten eggs and as Ken stated is hauled around 290°F to prevent solidification. Causes severe thermal burns to skin on contact.
It's mainly used in sulfuric acid production, petroleum refining, and pulp and paper manufacturing.
The car in the picture is empty going by the suspension, and has also been purged going by the lack of placards.
Not necessarily purged and cleaned as it has all the lettering and the orange "2448" rectangles permanently painted or affixed onto the tank body. Those should be covered up if the car is clean.The car in the picture is empty going by the suspension, and has also been purged going by the lack of placards.
Ah Chris, that may be true for a dedicated car, been awhile since I’ve dealt with it.Not necessarily purged and cleaned as it has all the lettering and the orange "2448" rectangles permanently painted or affixed onto the tank body. Those should be covered up if the car is clean.
Most of the sulphur cars I've seen only just have these "placards" permanently painted on the body and don't actually have anything in the placard holders.
I'm not so sure it would KEEP it at 290 degrees in transit...So how do they keep it at 290 degrees in the tanker?