(I hope this does not get posted twice)
Diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate, ANFO, is no big deal unless it is in a
confined space with a booster, primer cord and cap in it. It takes a real good
jolt to touch it off, that is why you need a booster. The main thing diesel
fuel does is to keep the nitrate from absorbing moisture.
Myron Dudenbostel retired coal miner (strip)
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <runextra@...> wrote:
>
> Leaking oil occurred on the railroad well after WW2. When I was an engineer
> forced hostling at Alliance, NE in 1975 it was standard procedure to fuel the
> locos when they came to the roundhouse pit/fuel track, even if they were to
> then go into the roundhouse itself for maintenance. (This was still the old Q
> roundhouse not today's modern shop). One night I'd just finished fueling an
> SD45 when the rhse foreman came out and asked if I had done so. When I
> replied that I had he was upset because there was some problem with the
> loco's tank and it was scheduled into the house for repair. So they pulled
> the drain plug of the loco tank and let 3000+ gallons of fresh fuel run into
> the pit and into the ground!
>
>
> When I came to Sheridan later in 1975 company diesel fuel was still being
> shipped in old steam, loco tenders. Probably the old oil tenders off of the
> Casper Division's 4-8-4s? At the time I didn't pay much attention as it was
> just part of railroading then. Wish I had taken photos of those. These old
> steam loco tenders were always right behind the diesels and they were
> constantly soaked and dripping with diesel oil. I think most of it slopped
> out the top hatches. At speed the slopping/dripping diesel fuel would fly
> back in the wind and coat the first few cars of the train. I wondered at the
> time why none of them ever caught fire due to hot braking. On numerous
> occasions the first 2 or so cars behind the tenders were covered hoppers
> loaded with Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer. More than once I found those cars
> drenched and dripping with diesel fuel that had blown onto them from the
> tenders. Ever hear of ANFO? It is truely amazing what went on back in the
> day, even when "the day" was the 1970s!
>
>
>
>
> ---In cbq@yahoogroups.com, <Dave_Lotz@> wrote:
>
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