Sentences with phrase «tank cars built»

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The U.S. - based Railway Supply Institute, whose members build more than 95 per cent of all North American tank cars and lease more than 70 per cent, said about 55,000 new tank cars will have been put in service between 2011 — when the new voluntary safety standards were adopted — and 2015.

In this environment, the railcar manufacturers should be kept busy retrofitting existing equipment and building new tank cars.

All the tank cars on the 109 - car train were newer models built after 2011 know as CPC 1232, the railroad said, and not the older DOT - 111 cars that have been criticized for being prone to puncture in accidents.

Many researchers had hoped to use nanoporous materials to build car tanks that could store more methane in less space.

They destroy buildings, crush cars, toss tanks and bite helicopters out of the sky.

His history includes building hot rods for rock stars (with multiple vehicles for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons), restorations of iconic hot rods (including the Doane Spencer roadster), and vintage race cars, such as Alex Xydias» So - Cal Speed Shop belly - tank racer from the January 1949 cover of HOT ROD.

I am in the porcess of building an application which reads live telemetry data from the inbuilt car computer and sends it to Google Firebase for analysis and informational lookup on your phone and through Google Home - eg you get reminders to get you to fill up soon when your fuel tank goes below a certain level.

In my eagerness to refuel my body at lunch, I forgot to gas up the car, and now the last remaining gallons are sloshing around in the tank as the g - forces build.

Your car has a small purge valve with a purge solenoid in the Evaporative Emissions system that controls the venting of fumes from the fuel tank as these fumes build up inside, particularly when you are refueling the car with...

There's an old joke that the best cars for teenagers are those that get terrible gas mileage (so they can't afford to drive too far from home), are built like tanks (for safety reasons), and seat just one person (to keep distractions to a minimum).

This car can scamper down the quarter mile in less than 14 - seconds at 100 mph on factory tires, despite being built like a tank.

The original owner, California black - plate car was almost completely rust free (the only rusty areas were a few pinholes in the floorboards and the gas tank mounting lip) but because we're going to have the car in our SEMA Show booth and at several shows for the next year or so, it needs to be show quality so we prepped the car for the build by sending it to Superstition Restoration in Mesa, AZ for the fitment of a Mustangs To Fear front fascia and hood, and then a retina - burning Axalta 2017 Mustang Competition Orange paint job.

The Fiat Linea has the best build here, sharing the honours with the Ford Fiesta, both of these cars feeling like a tank.

Like with the old car, the one thing we miss is the tank like build quality you use to get from the now defunct Laura or even the VW Jetta.

The gas tank, fuel lines and assorted hardware were all - new during the build, as was all hardware used during the reassembly of the car.

In spite of a few reliability issues (e.g., occasional erratic A / C and occasional erratic power), this car is built like a tank and accelerates 0 to 60 in about 4.8 s!

My dad is adamant about selling the Hyundai due to some shortcomings like the interior build quality (dashboard makes noises during hot climate) and the fuel tank has an odd evaporation issue where it forces the car not fill properly.

You can build Mechs, Spider Mechs, Tanks, Cars, Sleds, Aerocrafts, Rotorcrafts, and Hovercrafts.

Grand Theft Auto has you exploring Liberty City, an urbanized landscape filled with wide streets and buildings, unpredictable weather and pedestrians, as well as a multitude of vehicles such as sports cars, tanks and taxi cabs that you can... «borrow.»

Try fast racing or epic battles in huge block cities, craft mini cars or build giant tanks and drive them in various game locations to kill the enemies and win.

An effort, right from the gas tank in your car to the socket in your home to the laboratory in your classroom, to find ways to keep ourselves prosperous and build a sustainable world, without overloading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and without the complexities and conflicts that can come with reliance on fossil fuels.

(clockwise from top left) Cars queuing for petrol in London during the 1979 oil crisis; the Saskatchewan Conservation House in Canada, one of the pioneering low energy houses of the 20th century, was built in 1977; constructed even earlier was the Solar 1 house at MIT, which was built in 1939, and featured 33 sqm of solar thermal panels and a huge storage tank to meet its heating demand.