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Leo,
My first job out of college was at Sunstrand Hydraulics in Rockford, IL in 1983. The company built fuel oil pumps that were put on fuel oil burning furnaces, which still used in Rockford at that time. These furnaces required a serious dealer/delivery infrastructure of truck, and in the past trains, to get the fuel to local dealers who then delivered to the individual houses. The fuel was filled through an exterior filler neck to a large tank, in your basement. I remember one story about a dealer coming to the wrong location and pumping in fuel oil to a disconnected filler neck. It caused quite a mess in the finished basement!
When we were looking for our first house, several houses had these disconnected Octopus type furnaces with a fuel tank still in the basement. Some were in use still.
Rich G.
-----Original Message----- From: qutlx1 <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 1:25 pm Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] CB&Q Fuel Service John,
That was a bulk oil dealer. Most likely products were gasoline,diesel,fuel oil,kerosene,etc. It was these types of bulk dealer/distributors that often received multi-compartment tank cars so they could receive from two to five different products in one car. At one time there were many,many hundreds and bulk dealers and thousands of multi compartment cars. Pretty much gone by the late 50s. Standard Oil had a pipeline terminal at Rochelle and from there UTLX tank car were distributed all over the Midwest.
I was told by one old timer of a car moving from Rochelle to the dealer in Shabbona back in the day.
Leo Phillipp
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Would anyone know what type of fuel that the Q would deliver to Somonauk? There used to be large tanks that sat on concrete supports and there is an old transfer pump in a shack. It sits on the south side of the ROW.
Thanks,
John Shoener
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