Here's a scan of a badly cracked Acme news photo of the 9935B taken not at
Louisiana, Mo., but in the yards at St. Louis on May 10, 1949. The caption on
the rear of the print reads:
TRAIN FUELED WITH OIL MADE FROM COAL
ST. LOUIS: A Burlington Streamliner is shown in yards here just before it
started a run to Louisiana, Mo., burning oil made from coal. The test run was
a feature of the dedication of the Coal to Oil Demonstration Plant set up by
the Bureau of Mines in Louisiana, Mo. The plants are the first synthetic
liquid fuels installations of their kind in the country.
The one run may be all the unit made with the synthetic fuel.
Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: jamessandrin@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:29:04 -0700
Subject: Re: [CBQ] E7 9935B Question
Hi: Included are some attachments of the Unit in Question. The Q era
shot is by Vince Porreca at Denver in the Summer of 1969 where the unit was
awaiting its eastbound run on #10. The clean 3/4 shot of the 9920 shows the
unit as the only E7 to receive BN paint about a year later in August of 1970,
again in Denver. Dirty 9920 in near-broadside is from March 1971, a few weeks
before the beginning of Amtrak and the demise of the E7 fleet.
I suspect that other than showing up in a Railway Age promotional piece,
nothing extraordinary came of the experiment. A diesel engine can run on
practically anything that is petroleum based and synthetic fuels were used
extensively by the German Army's Panzer units just a few years before. That
is, until the RAF and Army Air Corps did their best to eliminate the sources of
that fuel.
I just thought that you might enjoy the images of the unit which ran until the
end of that model's duration.Jim Sandrin
CBQ 9935B, Synthetic Fuel from Coal Test,, St. Louis, Mo., 5-10-1949, Acme News Photo, Hol Wagner coll..jpg
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