How many gallons in a railroad tanker?

Answer 1

Actually, railroad tank sizes differ as much or more in volumetric capacity than their road-going counterparts. American Railcar manufactures tank cars; a few of their offerings can be found at the following website:



http://www.americanrailcar.com/RailcarManufacturing/Car.aspx?car=tank


As you can see, those nominal sizes range from 15,800 US gallons to 33,600 US gallons. Importantly, in context, American Railcar is not the only manufacturer of railroad tank cars; other manufacturers offer rail tank cars in a variety of additional sizes.


Your question isn't quite as open-ended as "how long is a rope," but it's close.



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The capacity is marked on the end of most tankers. The last train I looked at most of the tankers were around 30,000 us gallons or 24,980 imperial gallons or 113,562 liters.