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RE: [CBQ] Oiling track

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From: Ted Schnepf <railsunl@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:27:54 -0600
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Hello,

I the early days cited,"oiling track" could be for three or four reasons:

1. weed control
2. dust control.  Especially with gravel ballast. A fast moving passenger train would leave a large dust cloud in its wake.  Hardly worth sitting on the observation car deck to be in a dust storm.
3. spraying of rails to reduce the corrosion from salt brim from meat reefers.  This oil was almost like a asphalt coating on the base and web of the rail, normally on the eastbound main only. (meat loads go east).  It was applied with a sectionmens motor car pushing a heated tank with a sprayers being held by a track man walking along each rail.
4.  In the days of bolted rail, the joint bars were greased before being bolted to the rails.  this allowed for expansion and contraction of the rails.


At 12:40 PM 1/9/2014, you wrote:


All-
 
Going through old emails and had a chance to look up this item.   The article states the same equipment was being used on the IC Commuter District from Grand Crossing to Randolph Street so I imagine the cars were owned by a service that was providing the crew and equipment, similar to Speno in more recent times.
Rupert also found other articles:
Oiling track B&MR (1900) (R&ER vol. 40 page 443)
Oiling track CB&Q and B&MR (1899) (RA vol. 28 page 752)
Oiling track with tank car (? ex B&MR) (1911) (RAG vol. 51 page 525)
Oiling track with tank car photo (1911) (RAG vol. 51 page 525)
 
Charlie Vlk
 
Hol

There were magazine reports in 1899 and 1900 that both the CB&Q and B&MR were oiling tracks, and a Railway Age Gazette article in 1911 referred to the Burlington oiling track between Chicago and Downers Grove.  This article included a photo of the steel tank car being used with a perforated pipe connected to the main outlet to distribute the oil, but there are no visible markings on the tank.  I understand that the car looks like a Bettendorf car but the Burlington only had AC&F steel cars at this time so it might have been leased.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
 

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