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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Oil trains

Posted: 10/6/2015 6:29:56 AM EDT

Something I"ve long been curious about. Every time I drive back to North Dakota from Minnesota and take US 10, I see quite a number of oil trains. Each of these trains has either a boxcar or grain hopper car between the leading locomotives and the lengthy line of oil tanker cars being pulled. Does anybody know why this is?

Posted: 10/6/2015 9:54:48 AM EDT

[#1]

Spacer so you don't have an oil car behind the loco's.

Posted: 12/31/2015 7:52:19 PM EDT

[#2]

It's a buffer car. From what I understand it separates the loco and crew from the hazardous material. They are filled with inert material and act as a deflector in case of a derailment to shunt the tankers away from the locos in the case of a stack up.

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