Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and honourable members. I will start with an introduction about us. I am Jamal Hematian, the VP of product engineering, and I have Max Vanderby with me. He's our director of production engineering. We run the engineering department of National Steel Car

Transport committee  That's it. We are here for the technical part. I have some slides in my presentation, if you are interested I can show you the differences between legacy cars and good-faith cars. If you have any technical questions related to the design and manufacturing of railcars or freight c

Transport committee  Good question. There are a few things I want to mention. When we talk about freight cars, we have to look at North America, because it's not that at the border you change the rules or you change your car as they are going between the two countries. There are no boundaries there.

Transport committee  CPC-1250.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  This is the kind of business information we don't usually share publicly, because we have competitors and everyone has a certain capacity.

Transport committee  In North America there are about four or five major tank car builders. The total capacity could be around—and here I'm just going with rough numbers—maybe 20,000 per year. Just another number, maybe it's interesting to you.... On some other issues we mentioned here, just to give

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  That's correct. That's my estimate.

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  We are talking about two types of cars. When we go to CPC-1232, you can have two car types: one is non-jacketed and the other one is a jacketed car. This one just shows the 31,800. In this slide you see an unjacketed car, the CPC-1232. There are major features in this car.

Transport committee  The other thing we have to pay attention to is the difference between legacy cars and this one. At the top you can see the big nozzle around those fittings. We call it rollover protection. If this car is derailed and is rolling, it's protecting the top portion. That's one of the

Transport committee  The second part of the story is this. Every car is designed to a clearance diagram. If the material has changed, you cannot do much about it. If you made this one from plastic, you can't just.... You have to scrap it and make it from steel or aluminum or whatever. So that's numbe

Transport committee  I have just a quick answer to that one on whether we should change it or not. In adding one-sixteenth to the thickness of material for the unjacketed car, you are adding about 9,000 to 10,000 pounds to that car. Don't forget the gross freight load. I talked about it. Your top loa