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separate compartments were used to ship several products in the same car to a customer. For example different grades of gasoline, diesel oil, fuel oil, kerosene and naptha could be shipped to small distributors in the same car. Manufacturers could receive several types of lubricating oil in smaller quantities in the same car. Similarly, several chemicals could be shipped to a common receiver in the same car. Three-compartment cars often con-
tained three compartments of equal ca- pacity. Each of the three compartments had convex steel ends. The four inner tank-heads were hidden within the car’s cylindrical shell. Each of these separate compartments had its own expansion dome and could be inde- pendently loaded through its dome manhole cover and unloaded through its bottom outlet.
Three-compartment tank cars were built for various capacities including 6,000, 8,000 and 10,000 gallons by sev- eral car builders including Standard Tank Car Company, American Car & Foundry, General American Trans- portation and Union Tank Car Co. After Standard Tank Car Co., with
its large plant in Sharon, Pennsylva- nia, was acquired by General American Tank Car Co. in 1927, General Ameri- can retained the STCX reporting mark for leased cars originating from the Sharon plant. In the 1930’s Standard Tank Car
plant in Sharon built cars of class ICC- 103 indicating un-insulated, non-pres- sure, riveted, general-purpose cars and rated for 6,050 gallon capacity. They had three compartments, each with ap- proximately 2,015 gallons capacity and expansion dome of 125 gallons capacity. The tanks contained three heating coils to enable steam to be passed through the contents to warm the contents to in- crease its viscosity for unloading. The cars were built on the General American type 30 riveted underframe that General American manufactured from 1928 to 1942. The type 30 under- frame was distinctive in having no side sills nor end sills. Instead integral, riv- eted built-up bolsters that angled up from the running boards to form the supports for the tank. The ends of the bolsters were flat steel with recessions with push pole pockets. The sill steps were double rectangular steps. There was a ladder at the center of
each side to access the dome platform. The cars original KC air brakes were replaced with AB brakes between the late 1930’s and 1953. Cars, originally painted with STCX reporting marks, were gradually re- painted with GATX reporting marks. Eighteen of these cars were lettered for STCX with various numbers from 1930 to 1937. By 1940, the only cars still let- tered for STCX were STCX 9189 and STCX 9234. By April 1942 only STCX 9234 remained lettered for STCX. The
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