11-29-2009, 02:56 PM
Looks good Gary. I think how cars weather will depend on what commodity they haul. I'm not sure that any railroad wastes time and money washing freight cars, other than washing out the inside of reefers, corn oil tanks, or other cars carrying food products. They way silos work, not much if anything is going to be spilled when loading a covered hopper through the hatches, but I found out in a tour of the Cemex cement plant in Victorville, Ca at the 2008 NMRA convention that everything in or around a cement plant is covered with very fine cement dust in a short time without any cement spilling during the loading operation.