RE: [CBQ] Oiling track

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

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Going through old emails and had a chance to look up this item.   The article states the same equipment was being used on the IC Commuter District from Grand Crossing to Randolph Street so I imagine the cars were owned by a service that was providing the crew and equipment, similar to Speno in more recent times.

Rupert also found other articles:

Oiling track B&MR (1900) (R&ER vol. 40 page 443)

Oiling track CB&Q and B&MR (1899) (RA vol. 28 page 752)

Oiling track with tank car (? ex B&MR) (1911) (RAG vol. 51 page 525)

Oiling track with tank car photo (1911) (RAG vol. 51 page 525)

 

Charlie Vlk

 

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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