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Ed Kapuscinski

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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2010, 10:36:00 PM »
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Lol, that's funny.

The Wire has plenty of social merit. I'd advise picking up David Simon's The Wire: Truth be Told book to get some more of it. I'm working through it right now.
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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2010, 11:32:34 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on July 14, 2010, 10:36:00 PM
Lol, that's funny.

The Wire has plenty of social merit. I'd advise picking up David Simon's The Wire: Truth be Told book to get some more of it. I'm working through it right now.

As a fan of the philosophical hermeneuticist Gadamer, and having lived in some of Baltimore's crappier neighborhoods, I've dominated the discussion so far. Plus, I got to chat with Simon @ Irene's a couple times when he was in town during the shooting so I got some of the inside skinny.
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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2010, 10:13:01 AM »
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No paint in tank cars. My company ships latex to paint firms. Difficult enough with concerns for temp of lading and need to wash out immediately after emptying where possible. We also ship in cars of acrylates to be blended with the latex, pigments and other additives.

What comes out of the paint factories is usually packaged.

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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2011, 12:03:37 PM »
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Hydraulic fluid, lube oil, gasoline, radiator coolant???
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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2011, 02:31:36 PM »
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The American Motors body plant in Milwaukee (along the Beer Line) received tank cars of paint through the early 1970s (and i have the pictures to prove it). ;)
Of course this is the company that brought you the Gremlin and the Pacer, so I don't know if quality was their primary concern.

In addition, they received inbound shipments of auto frames in Pennsy gons (anyone have pictures of these?), steel in gons, "body parts" in boxcars (again Pennsy). They shipped the auto bodies by truck and scrap in gons, oddly just a mile or so to a scrap company for processing.

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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2011, 02:37:01 PM »
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Wow, you'd wonder if for the life of that particular tank if they could only ship Olive Green paint or did they just wash the tanks down with a lacquer thinner sprayed at high pressure?  I mean you certainly couldn't expect that they could completely rid the tank of a load of a certain color each time.
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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2011, 02:45:52 PM »
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Good point Bryan and others about residue. It doesn't sense to me either, but here are the tanks (bottom right) spotted outside the Paint Shop. Perhaps these were just some kind of solvent to prepare the parts for painting?

Right click to view the image at full size.
   

Best wishes, Dave

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Re: Auto Plant Loads
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2011, 08:31:21 PM »
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Solvent to clean the paint lines, waste solvent out for recycling?

Bob.
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