RE: [CBQ] Company Tank Cars

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Rupert and John:
 
>From the railroad standpoint, distillate was the term applied to a fuel somewhere between crude and gasoline, and thus cheaper to refine than gasoline.  A number of Q passemger motor cars -- including C&S 401-402 -- were modified to burn distillate.  So the car in question was probably bringing a load of motor car fuel to Denver for the car on the Denver-Boulder-Longmont-Loveland-Fort Collins-Greeley run, trains 23-24.
 
Perhaps the best known use of distillate for fuel was in UP's M-10000 of 1934, allowing the Q's 9900 to claim the title of first diesel-powered streamlined train.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 22:29:38 -0800
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Company Tank Cars

 

Rupert

Distillate is another name used in the trade for kerosene type products i.e. diesel fuel, steam engine fuel oil and heating oil. It simply means oil that has been distilled (refined). The term is applied to all petroleum products between gasoline and residual oil. Steam engines burned everything from heavy distillate (number 3 & 4) to residual oil (black oil).  Most diesel fuel is number 2 and most heating oil is number 1.

John

On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:54 PM, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

 

Hol

Any guesses what the distillate (up to 10,000 gallons) would be used for? And still on the subject of renumbering, any idea why tank cars were renumbered out of the revenue service numbering in about 1938?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of HOL WAGNER
Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2013 6:40 a.m.
To: CB&Q Group
Subject: [CBQ] Company Tank Cars

 

In light of recent discussions about the use of company-owned tank cars in revenue service (which occurred primarily before their renumbering into the 230000 series), here are a couple of bits of correspondence on the topic that I uncovered in the Colorado Railroad Museum library while sorting old records yesterday:
 
Denver, Colo., August 10, 1932
 
Geo. Eckhart, CB&Q, Casper
 
Purchasing Department ordering today from Continental OIl Company one car distillate to be billed C&S Denver, wanted destination ot later than 15th, understand will load at Standard Oil Company, Casper.  Protect with CB&Q car.   K 338.
 
G.B. Hoover
[C&S Supt. Transportation]
 

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