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Just another observation..I'm assuming that the guy in the light colored shirt on the right hand side of the "window" would be the head brakeman, perfoming the function that I handled back in'58. I don't know the date of your photo, but it might be "later in the game"..and perhaps the trainman up there would have a radio....That would be safer and perhaps offer a better control...but the lack of one makes a better story. Pete
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From: 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2017 7:33 pm Subject: [CBQ] Weed Spray equipment [1 Attachment]
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Pete
Is this the one you were referring to? Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, 27 January 2017 9:44 a.m. To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: [CBQ] Weed Spray Story..........and related subjects Next is the WEED SPRAY TRAIN.
That's what we are talking about here. It's a boxcar like
"spray car" with a window like opening on the "business
end" and equipped with gasoline engine powered mixing a pressurizing
equipment to mix the "chemical" with water and force it through the
sprayer bars which run crosswise of the car about coupler height on the front
and below the window. The spray train consists from the front...
the spray car and related equipment followed by a number of tank cars
carrying the chemical and water. This whole string is SHOVED by an engine
and usually a WAYCAR is behind the engine. A relatively short time
ago a picture of a train made up exactly like this was displayed on this
forum..It was in front of the depot in some town in Illinois IIRC and was an
EXACT DUPLICATE of the train I worked on Summer 1958. I wish someone
would dig this one up and display it here.
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