Hi Leo,
On the Milwaukee Road the mainline rail of the eastbound mains on both the
Lacrosse and Iowa divisions had a sand and tar like mix applied to retard
the effects of brine corrosion from reefer drains. That mix really stuck
to the rail and was visible years after the meat reefer business ended.
Ted
At 10:07 PM 5/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
The discussion of weed sprayers brought back a memory of a comment that Lew
Peshia told me one day as we pulled into HY and were looking at a string of
new rail installed through the East End.He commented that the RR no longer
followed up the rail gangs w/a rail oiler train.Since I had never heard of
such a thing I asked what purpose there would be in oiling the straight
rail(curves I understood). He said that before the departure of all the ice
reefeers the rails needed to be protected from salt water mixture dripping
from the hundreds of them passing by daily!
Leo
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