: a railroad car for transporting liquids or gases in bulk
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Norfolk Southern contractors advised emergency responders to breach the five tank cars, drain the contents and then set fire to the tens of thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride inside.—Shradha Dinesh, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025 Struggling to contain the fire, officials feared five tank cars carrying vinyl chloride were in danger of exploding.—Shradha Dinesh, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025 Soon after, firefighters clad with gas masks and full personal protective equipment arrived on scene to mitigate the leak, which developed a full vapor plume spewing from the top of the tank car.—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024 Federal investigators confirmed Tuesday that a hot railcar wheel bearing sparked a fire and caused the massive derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying tank cars with hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023.—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for tank car
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