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First, don't let anybody fool you, hydraulic fracturing is a proven technology that has been around since 1949, so it wasn't "forty years before fracking", but that aside, silica sand is used to make glass and a lot of glass was made in Canada. More likely, the sand went to Michigan where also a lot of glass was made. From: Leo <qutlx1@aol.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:54 PM Subject: [CBQ] Canadian Sand Trains of the 1960s At a get together tonight Roger Field asked about the Canadian unit sand trains of the late 60s,early 70s that originated at Ottowa,IL with a fill at Wedron. Typically #86 on a Saturday night would bring the train to Eola where it would get a complete mechanical inspection including brass change outs and repacks while in the classification yard on Sunday; before, as he remembered, it went to Chicago and the Grand Trunk. He recalled it being both Q and GTW covered hoppers.
Any idea what industry in that time period could use a unit train of silica sand ? This is 40 plus years before fracking. Leo Phillipp Sent from my iPad __._,_.___
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