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In what appears to be her final "working" assignment before going to the Colorado Railroad Museum, Irvine Fierstein photographed the 5629 at Hastings, Nebraska. At what seems to be a chemical processing facility, the O5-B Northern was used as a source for steam cleaning tank cars. Here are the questions that may fill in some blanks: 1. What was the company/product that required the cleaning of tank cars? 2. How long did the assignment last? 3. Did the company come up with a permanent solution? 4. Photos taken at Hastings a few years later show long strings of tank cars on tracks north of the mainline. Were those cars destined for the same customer or for different destinations? I am trying to put together some text for photos that Irvine donated to the BRHS archives, and this group of the 5629 are part of that project. Thanks for any help offered. Jim Sandrin __._,_.___ Posted by: jamessandrin@yahoo.com __,_._,___ |