How to Use tank car in a Sentence

tank car

noun

• Eight of the train’s cars were tank cars, and some of them had the flammable liquid, Olson said.
  — Tina Burnside, CNN, 1 June 2023
• The tank car may have held a flammable liquid in it called methyl isobutyl ketone, used as a solvent.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2019
• Oily product is leaking from a tank car and pooling onto the soil.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• When was the move from aluminum to steel for tank car protective housings?
  — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• The conductor helped separate undamaged tank cars filled with crude oil from the rest of the train so they could be pulled away from the fire.
  — Josh Funk, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
• Then a few days later officials blew open five more tank cars to keep them from exploding.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• When the train careened off the tracks on the night of Feb. 3, several tank cars filled with hazardous chemicals ruptured, and their contents caught fire.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• But the people who made the decision to blow open those tank cars said they were never told what OxyVinyls’ experts determined.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• Rail remains vulnerable to track wear and defects and single-walled tank cars that can be punctured in a crash.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
• The hearing on Friday will focus on tank car safety and the trackside detectors.
  — Josh Funk, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The bulk of the fleet carrying flammable liquids are the same old tank cars that were identified as part of the problem in previous accidents.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
• A decade ago, transporting crude by rail was rare, while stowing oil in a tank car was virtually unheard of.
  — Robert Tuttle, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• That work slowed on Friday, when two workers were splashed with cyclohexanone while disconnecting a hose from the tank car.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2020
• Damaged tank cars spewed toxic chemicals into the air and water.
  — Usa Today Network, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• Three days after the crash, the authorities, fearing that the five tank cars containing vinyl chloride might explode, released and burned the cars’ contents.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• The agency will also focus on the designs of tank cars and railcars along with maintenance procedures and practices.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• The agency will also focus on the designs of tank cars and railcars, along with maintenance procedures and practices.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• But large water tanks and railroad firefighting equipment remained at the site to handle any flare-ups as damaged tank cars are removed.
  — Josh Funk, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
• An empty tank car on the train had been carrying liquid ammonia nitrate.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• An Associated Press reporter witnessed a yellow substance coming out of some of the tank cars.
  — Time, 25 June 2023
• Norfolk Southern's Robert Wood said even if there wasn't a chemical reaction, officials were still concerned that the tank cars could fail and release the vinyl chloride.
  — Josh Funk, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The Holiday Express, decorated from tank car to caboose in twinkling lights, shiny ornaments, and toy trains, comes complete with Santa and a few elves.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• Buttigieg called on the freight rail industry to accelerate the phase-in of safer tank cars and provide workers paid sick leave and on Congress to raise existing caps on the fines for rail safety regulations.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2023
• Unfortunately, very few new tank cars have actually been put into use in recent years, and even cheaper retrofits have been slow.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
• First, because three tank cars – of a model known to be vulnerable – carrying a flammable chemical were punctured, spilling their contents, which caught fire.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• The investigation will also look into the train’s wheelset and the bearing, the designs of tank cars and railcars, the maintenance procedures and practices, as well as the damage from the derailment, the NTSB report said.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Trains will continue to run on the north track, where there are tank cars that still need to be inspected, Norfolk Southern representative Darrell Wilson said.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
• Oregon will be able to charge up to $20 on each oil tank car entering Oregon or loaded in the state, plus a small annual fee on railroads’ gross operating revenues in Oregon.
  — oregonlive.com, 29 June 2019
• Think of how one rail car often carries the equivalent of three to four truckloads of hazmat, or how trains are more likely to transport many tank cars and different substances at once, as well as for further distances.
  — Katherine Oung, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• The bill allows Oregon to charge up to $20 on each oil tank car entering Oregon or loaded in the state, plus a small annual fee on railroads’ gross operating revenues in Oregon.
  — oregonlive.com, 17 June 2019

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024