John,
I recalling seeing a photo in a very old "Trains Magazine" of a solid
tank car train on the Q. As I remember, it was pulled by FTs and the photo
was taken somewhere on the Wind River line. As far as tank car ownership,
back in WWII as it is now, most of the tank cars were private owner,
primarily GATX and UTLX. I don't know how the WPB restrictions applied to
them, but I assume that every available tank car was pressed into shipment
of oil and oil products for the war effort.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
Wed
Oct 30, 2013 10:21 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
All-
Another
NPR report today on oil companies moving oil by rail as they can't get the
Keystone XL pipe line built had me thinking about the NP's dedicated oil
trains to support the war in the Pacific during WWII. Does anyone know the
details (or has an article been written) on dedicated oil trains on the Q
during WWII? Presume FWD-KC-Laurel, but anything is possibl e.
As
an addendum to the above, the NP's tank car fleet was just about nil in
1940 (just a handful for company service). Does anyone know how many tank
cars the Q rostered in 1940 and then in 1945? With the War Production
Board clamping down on who got what for the duration, I would like to know
if they allocated any materials for tank car construction (as tankers were
quickly taken up in war service and withdrawn from coastal/Gulf public
trade).
RSVP
John
Phillips
Seattle