Comments on: May I have Molten Sulphur With My Vegetable Oil Please? http://naturemoms.com/blog/2006/05/15/may-i-have-molten-sulphur-with-my-vegetable-oil-please/ Green and Natural Parenting Mon, 21 May 2012 10:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Allen Jenkins http://naturemoms.com/blog/2006/05/15/may-i-have-molten-sulphur-with-my-vegetable-oil-please/#comment-160 Allen Jenkins Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:27:15 +0000 http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/05/15/may-i-have-molten-sulphur-with-my-vegetable-oil-please/#comment-160 Hello Tiffany & Tangle, your interest on reading the reporting marks of railroad cars is important in that your kids will learn to accept the advent of a train occurring anytime at the crossing & will accept that fact of life as you teach them. Anytime Is Train Time!...See http://www.oli.org/for_kids/kids_overview.htm I happened to be doing research on the transportation of sulfur as a bulk liquid by tank car for a product load for my Auran TrainzSimulator. As a former truck driver that carried sulfur for years from port to plant in Central Florida(Mulberry) for the fertilizer industry, I can tell you the the Federal Department of Transportation(DOT) closely regulates the transportation of chemicals in edible/non-edible commodities. No product is allowed in a food-grade container or vehicle if it is classed as non-edible, hazardous, corrosive, poisonous, not fit for human-consumption, etc. The industries that consume these chemicals in bulk form are not generally associated with food-grade industries & if so have safety documentation that describes the product & handling codes that must be accounted for & the transportation entity is required to have documents on-hand for quick identification of the product in case of emergency. Yes, a vegetable oil tanker will be steam-cleaned on-site after unloading or before loading, as do many other commodities in whatever form of shipment is required(bulk liquid, bulk dry-granular, etc). I hope this information helps & thanks again for taking your time for safety at grade-crossings & watching trains! Hello Tiffany & Tangle, your interest on reading the reporting marks of railroad cars is important in that your kids will learn to accept the advent of a train occurring anytime at the crossing & will accept that fact of life as you teach them. Anytime Is Train Time!…See http://www.oli.org/for_kids/kids_overview.htm

I happened to be doing research on the transportation of sulfur as a bulk liquid by tank car for a product load for my Auran TrainzSimulator.

As a former truck driver that carried sulfur for years from port to plant in Central Florida(Mulberry) for the fertilizer industry, I can tell you the the Federal Department of Transportation(DOT) closely regulates the transportation of chemicals in edible/non-edible commodities. No product is allowed in a food-grade container or vehicle if it is classed as non-edible, hazardous, corrosive, poisonous, not fit for human-consumption, etc.

The industries that consume these chemicals in bulk form are not generally associated with food-grade industries & if so have safety documentation that describes the product & handling codes that must be accounted for & the transportation entity is required to have documents on-hand for quick identification of the product in case of emergency.

Yes, a vegetable oil tanker will be steam-cleaned on-site after unloading or before loading, as do many other commodities in whatever form of shipment is required(bulk liquid, bulk dry-granular, etc).

I hope this information helps & thanks again for taking your time for safety at grade-crossings & watching trains!

]]> By: Tangle http://naturemoms.com/blog/2006/05/15/may-i-have-molten-sulphur-with-my-vegetable-oil-please/#comment-159 Tangle Mon, 15 May 2006 14:04:25 +0000 http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/05/15/may-i-have-molten-sulphur-with-my-vegetable-oil-please/#comment-159 My concern is are they using the same container that they hall the vegetable oil on the next trip are they putting the molten sulphur without fulling cleaning out the vegetable oil and then are they hauling the vegetable oil after the molten sulphur without cleaning the car again and if the cleaning is only a rinse out. Thanks, Tangle My concern is are they using the same container that they hall the vegetable oil on the next trip are they putting the molten sulphur without fulling cleaning out the vegetable oil and then are they hauling the vegetable oil after the molten sulphur without cleaning the car again and if the cleaning is only a rinse out.
Thanks,
Tangle

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