MossRoad
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How are you going to pour dirt into a center hole on top of a rail tank car and get it to the ends of the car? Can't be done. The angle of repose won't allow it without someone getting in the tank and spreading it around. Then you'd have to compact it somehow. It would be a slow and tedious labor intensive process.I’m not looking to start debate, but I still don’t understand the logic. If it’s a void at the top of the tank that is the concern, pour in the last quarter, over filling, in loose mud. Level out when dry. A fraction of the cost?
There are about 200 gal in a yard of concrete. A train car holds about 9,000 gal. That would require about 45 yards of concrete? That’s 4 and 1/2 truck loads. Even a light grout mix seems expensive.
Your figures are correct. I left after the 3rd cement truck. They said it took 4.5. As I recall, they said each truck had 11 yards.
All they had to do was dump it in and vibrate it until it got to the top and wouldn't take anymore.
This was, as I recall, around 1996-7.