Hol Wagner wrote:
There were two big refineries at Casper, plus others at Glenrock, Greybull and Cody, all on the Casper Division...
Hol, thanks! Do you (or does anyone) recall who owned/operated the plants listed above?
Two other asides -- does anyone have the Q's annual reports for the 1940-1945 period, and if so, could they check, see and post the amount of oil the Q showed itself hauling for those years? If there isn't a line item for POL traffic, does anyone know if the Q ever published Statistical Supplements (and have copies of same)? I have seen these (and have a few) for the GN and NP, and have seen some for the UP and SP (do not have), and have one very early oddball off the NP which was a statistical supplement not done for shareholders but for the ICC ca. 1893. The supplements should have line item for POL traffic handled if it is not called out in the annual reports. (I presume given the increase there may have even been a comment from company officers printed in the annual reports about this traffic.) Anyone, anyone...?
RSVP
John Phillips
Seattle
PS -- In response to Secretary Harold Ickes' putting his foot in it back around 1941, _Railway Age_ went through a lot of trouble to follow and track how much oil U.S. roads started handling as the U.S. war effort really got underway. I'll try and see how long they continued to publish these stats, but it's clear the editor took a fair amount of delight in rubbing Ickes' nose in it.
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