16,000-Gallon Funnel Flow Tank Car

Union Tank Car Co.  UTLX 630514

Versatile Tank Cars Can Serve Many Industries.

Developed by the Union Tank Car Company during the 1960s, Funnel-Flow cars carry all kinds of liquids and slurries (mixtures of water and other materials) that can be unloaded by gravity.

Designed so the tank is slightly lower in the middle, its contents flow (as in a funnel) towards the lowest point ensuring faster, more complete unloading.

Funnel-Flow tank cars come in several lengths: Dense, heavy liquids are shipped in shorter cars; lighter fluids move in the 54-footers.

Internal heating coils to reheat the contents for faster unloading equip many cars that haul thick liquids such as asphalt, molten sulfur and corn syrup.

Ideal for chemical and paper industries, you’ll find them hauling kaolin clay slurries to paper mills, fuel additives to refineries and food additives to processing plants – not to mention running as unit trains moving molten sulfur.

• Ready to run
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