Clay Slurry Tank Cars

[Brakie]

It is interesting that clay with a lot of water (that is slurry) and therefor more volume and weight is more cost effective shipped in tank cars than clay only in boxcars. I assume the loading and unloading process is also more efficient with tank cars. That demonstrates how expensive boxcar shipping is.

From what I seen it takes longer to unload a tank car if the slurry is going into the production tank rather then a storage tank-a lot of companies doesn't use a storage tank since they use JIT shipments for other material.