23: The interior of the valve casing on a high-pressure
tank car (ICC 105). – American Car & Foundry photo,
courtesy Ed Kaminski.
for loading and unloading the cargo, and appropriate valves.
23 shows the interior of such a housing.
A workman would climb the car’s side ladder to the walkway,
or step across from a platform. Either way, he had to work
safely around the high-pressure fittings for the car’s cargo.
It was common to provide some sort of elevated platform,
roughly 10' off the ground, to make it easier to do this work.
24 shows a workman loading a tank car, but you can see that
he has used a plank to reach the tank top from the platform,
and he is simply standing atop the tank. This might be not be
satisfactory if he had to make pipe connections and manipu-
late the valves and fittings of a high-pressure car as part of
the job.
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