GCX 731005 • Jim Thorington • Southern Railway • Birmingham, AL • April 1971

The box above the lefthand truck is a part of the car's 440-volt electric heating system.  The cargo has to be heated so it will flow out of the car, and the residue below the dome demonstrates what happens when the contents cools!

8 CARS • 8 AXLES • FOUR 70-TON TRUCKS

General American Transportation Corp., April 1968

133,000 pounds Light Weight

307,000 pounds Load Limit

440,000 pounds Gross Weight

30,100 gallons

AAR Code T108 (welded steel tank)

Specification No. : ICC 111-A-100-W-1

Plate C

Built for Allied Chemical Corp., General Chemical Division

Equipped with external coils and plug-in heaters

Listed in Official Railway Equipment Register : JUL 1968-JAN 2003

All eight cars remained listed through APR 2000; but only one remained in OCT 2001 and it lingered until JAN 2003.

GCX 731000	Jim Thorington	SOU - Birmingahm, AL - Nov 1979
GCX 731001	Louis Schultz	Jefferson, LA - Jan 1983
GCX 731004	Jim Thorington	SOU - Birmingahm, AL - Apr 1970
GCX 731005	Jim Thorington	SOU - Birmingahm, AL - Apr 1971

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