03-28-2012, 01:18 PM
Gary S Wrote:On the sulphur train, was it molten sulphur in tank cars?
As for era, since I have a few BNSF "swoosh" cars, I'm around 2005.... do have some older cars that probably should have been scrapped by now. :oops:
Yes the sulpher was transported as molten sulphur in tank cars. According to the article, Texas was the leading supplier of sulphur in the world until they started to reclaim sulphur from coal, coke, and oil. Apparently it is so cheap to reclaim sulphur from these other products that mining it ceased to be profitable. The sulphur trains ceased operation in 1999, and the tracks from Pecos north to the BNSF mainline at Clovis, N.M. were removed in 2002.