5 CARS · 8 AXLES · FOUR 100-TON TRUCKS

AMF, May-June 1970

150,000 pounds Light Weight - as built

143,000 pounds Light Weight - with jacket removed

366,000 pounds Load Limit - as built

383,000 pounds Load Limit - with jacket removed

526,000 pounds Gross Weight

38,300 gallons

92-07 Outside Length

15-06 Outside Extreme Height

10-01 Outside Extreme Width

Final AAR Class : T109 (welded steel tank)

Final Specification : DOT 111-A-100-W-1

Plate C

Built for E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.

Initial service unknown (see below)

Listed in Official Railway Equipment Register : JUL 1970-2011

These cars were initially insulated, but the insulation and outer jacket were later removed and the cars went into ethylene glycol service.  Removing the jacket reduced each car's Light Weight by about 17,000 pounds and increased its Load Limt by the same amount.  Car 12403 disappeared from the Equipment Register in APR 1991, but the other four survived until the end of DuPont's RailWhale era.  They went into storage on the Mississippi Export Railroad in December 2007 and were scrapped by Schnitzer Steel in Georgia and Alabama during January 2010.

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DUPX 12401	Steven Palmieri	New Orleans, LA; 10/21/1994
DUPX 12402	Patrick Harris	New Orleans, LA; 02/04/1996
DUPX 12405	Craig Bossler	Thorndale, PA; 03/10/1973
DUPX 12405	Gene Trescott
DUPX 12405	Bernie Feltman	Columbia, AL; 01/04/2010

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