To echo from a former in the Operating Department - Aurora to Chicago was
always the "East End" to us and never the "racetrack".
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From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:16:09 -0600 (CST)
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Re: [CBQ] Re: Track oiling
Just a couple of comments, I want to make. I
realize most on the list are not railroaders, but I never heard a real life
railroader (at least a M of W railroader) refer to a motor car as a "speeder"
nor did I ever hear a push car called a "speeder trailer". Some may have
but not to me. This is not anything in the way of a correction as we all know
what you are talking about. It is just my observation as one who was
around when there were a lot of motor cars in use. And before you say, that I
used the term in BB #35, that was added by someone else.
On
Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:16 AM, Douglas Harding
<doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org> wrote:
Oiling track
bars, etc. was a standard maintenance issue. The Fairmont Motor Company
made/sold equipment for this task. Basically a tank mounted on a speeder
trailer, pulled by a Fairmont speeder. Had a pump and wands for spraying oil.
See attached photos. From the photos Bill shared, it appears the CB&Q just
did it on a bigger scale.
Doug
Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org