Re: [CBQ] Downers Grove tanks

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Even on the Rock Port Langdon and northern we had Texaco, Standard Oil, and DX distributors tanks on our own station ground.  I have old correspondence between my grandfather and traffic men on the Q regarding rates for gasoline from Tulsa OK to Rock Port.  It was a significant piece of business for the railroads serving small towns.

Pete

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From: 'Doug Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 18, 2017 8:23 pm
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Downers Grove tanks

 

Rupert those tanks on the right are an oil jobber (or petroleum distributor) setup. They are steel tanks on concrete piers, the tanks are painted white. There would be a separate tank for each product: gasoline, kerosene, diesel/fuel oil, etc. There is probably another set of tanks behind the locomotive as I see two unloading stands with pipes, indicating two oil jobbers adjacent to each other along the track. This was common in the Midwest where you would see several oil jobbers set up along the same track. Sometimes it was call the oil track. The unloading rack would have pipes that went to a pump house, then on to the tanks. The pump house contained a pump that would be used to empty the tankcar, either from the top or the bottom depending upon state law, and filled the station tanks. The oil jobber would then use the same pump to move product fro m the tank to his delivery truck so he could deliver to his customers or sometimes to his own service stations.

 

Doug  Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 6:35 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Downers Grove tanks

 

 

There’s a photo of #2852 on eBay, taken at Downers Grove in June 1950 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-616-Negative-CB-Q-4-6-2-2862-/382167793474?hash=item58faf9bf42:g:I9QAAOSw2kZZbTV0

On the right hand side of the photo are two concrete tanks on concrete supports. Any idea what they were used for?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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