Re: [CBQ] Re: Track oiling

[Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com]

Just a "little something"  a reminder from something else...My wife used to say..."everything reminds you of something"..and that is true.

During my early days in the "railroad game" I was with the RI's "District Maintenance Engineer" and after visiting each section gang as we left he would ALWAYS say..."Don't get your MOTOR CAR hit"

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: archie hayden <klinerarch@charter.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 8:36 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Track oiling

 

Hol, Thanks for bringing us up to speed on the motor cars.  Pun intended.  Since we are speaking of the motor cars that our fine brothers of the section were in charge of, old heads told me of several burial grounds along the right of way that harbored the remains of a wayward motor car who paid no attention to the lineups.  I did not dig there to validate the story but often wondered if it was that easy to "cover up" such an incident.  The only thing I ever dug up was a pot belly stove some section men told me about from the shelter at Lentner, Mo.  Lo and behold it was still there about a foot below the cinders.  Kind of rusty.  Archie also kind of rusty.

On Jan 13, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Hol Wagner wrote:

 

I' m the one who John was referring to who changed his proper use of the term motor car to speeder in Bulletin 35, and in hindsight, while I did it to make clear to today's fans what was being talked about, I should have taken the necessary space to note that the railroad never called them anything but motor cars, while their much larger kin were passenger motor cars or PMCs, not doodlebugs or any other similar term.  Sorry if I gave any legitimacy to the use of the term speeder.  My bad.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:56:48 -0500
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Track oiling

 

John

Just before I read your message, below, I was sitting here thinking about asking what you and I could do about these continuing  references to a MOTOR CAR as a speeder...Like you I never ever heard the term "speeder" used before I came to the "railfan world

Guys, please for the sake of us old  guys  ie John an Pete...could we please refer to any    of what is known in real railroad parlance as a Track car by it's proper term.   These things are MOTOR CARS....The term "Speeder" marks you out as a railfan without a knowledge of "real railroading....

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 9:16 am
Subject: 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, et c. 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

 

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