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The details of the wreck are listed on the ICC Accident Investigation WEbsite
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 1:46 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Banded tank car Hol
This photo is the aftermath of a wreck on 25 July 1942 on Crawford Hill, when two trains collided head-on, killing three crew in one of the locos. The crash resulted from the Crawford operator failing to hand up all the orders to one of the trains. The missing order identified the new meeting point for the two trains.
Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of HOL WAGNER
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2013 5:33 a.m. To: CB&Q Group Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Banded tank car [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from HOL WAGNER included below]
Paul:
Here's the best view I have of one of the white-banded tank cars, and the lettering on it pretty well refutes what I said earlier about their being used for gasoline -- though that's still what I was told by someone who should have known. The visible part of the lettering reads: FOR CB&Q OIL EXCLUSIVELY AND MUST BE USED ONLY FOR and unfortunately the remainder of the stenciling is either illegible or not visible. The wreck in the photo was a head-on collision on the Alliance Division in the late 1930s or early 1940s, I believe on the North Platte Valley line between Northport, Neb., and Guernsey, Wyo. It's possible there were red-banded tanks for gasoline, as the gasoline tanks on passemger motor cars were always painted red. But this is nothing but my speculation. Hol __._,_.___
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