[CBQ] Oiling track

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

Hol

There were magazine reports in 1899 and 1900 that both the CB&Q and B&MR were oiling tracks, and a Railway Age Gazette article in 1911 referred to the Burlington oiling track between Chicago and Downers Grove.  This article included a photo of the steel tank car being used with a perforated pipe connected to the main outlet to distribute the oil, but there are no visible markings on the tank.  I understand that the car looks like a Bettendorf car but the Burlington only had AC&F steel cars at this time so it might have been leased.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of HOL WAGNER
Sent: Saturday, 2 November 2013 3:19 a.m.
To: CB&Q Group
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Oil on the Q in World War Two

 

And there were certainly no environmental concerns about leaking oil.  In fact, a bit further back in time, around the turn of the 20th Century, many railroads -- the Q and C&S among them -- widely promoted the fact that they oiled their rights-of-way to reduce dust.
 
Hol
 

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