October 5, 2015
Leo - No, I haven't heard your "Pielet and dynamite" story. Please share.
Rubber lined tank cars were such a nuisance to cut-up that we only accepted them
at no value and still they rolled into the yard. We cut them in the same manner
as we cut the oil/asphalt contaminated tank cars (that is to say, we did not
"remove" the rubber lining at least in the sense you think it would be removed
today). Remember, this was Scrapping 101 back before the EPA took all the fun
out of cutting-up railroad equipment. Also share how the shops way back then got
the rubber lining out of tank cars. Best Regards - Louis
In a message dated 10/5/2015 2:38:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Louis,
I'm pretty sure I know how they were cut.
I have told the Pielet story about dynamite and riveted tanks ?
Or how shops used to remove interior rubber linings ?
Leo
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October 5, 2015
Leo - Thanks! In the scrap business, you always made your money on the
BUY, never the sell..... But, it was always impressed upon me as a
young and very green scrap buyer at the time that HONEST weights were the
only way business was to be conducted. Can't say the same for some our
competitors we fought like cats and dogs with over tonnage. I bought a lot
of equipment that really should've gone to a museum instead. One passenger
car that still sticks in my mind was a small L&N steel sheathed wood
"Jim Crow" branch line coach last used in MOW service that had kept its
divided passenger sections and leaded glass windows in the upper roof.
I also bought many ancient riveted tank cars, most of which, as I recall,
were 50 years or older when we scrapped them in the early 1970s. How
we cut-up the ones that arrived with oil or asphalt residue still
remaining in them is another story for another thread... Best Regards
- Louis
Louis,
Ah it's so nice when someone uses the same language,gross tons!
Thanks to both you and John.
In BRHS Bulletin #7 I just found a drawing for an XM32,50 ton box
with truck set weights(including wheels) at 15,200. So Louis your number
is dead on. You were being fair to both car owner and your
employer
Leo
October 5,
2015
Leo - I recall that a 50 ton capacity friction
bearing truck weighed approximately five gross tons, 70 ton
capacity would've been a little heavier. Each wheel set was in the range
of a thousand pounds. Anyway, that's what we calculated the
purchase weights as when bidding for scrap. Best Regards -
Louis
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