Re: [CBQ] Non-Brass HO scale model of CB&Q 2-8-2 4960

["Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

November 16, 2018

All - Sounds like a good subject for an article in the BRHS Bulletin, "Oil Burners On The Q" or something like that.... Some interesting questions here - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 11/16/2018 2:43:36 PM Central Standard Time, runextra@gmail.com writes:

I have seen the photo of the two engines crossing the overpass at 'Gillette" on several websites. But I question that the picture was taken at Gillette. That is NOT what the old Hwy 14/16 overpass at Gillette looked like and it was the only overpass near Gillette.  But tyhe bigger problem is that those engines are oil burners and as far as I know oil burners were not used on the Sheridan-Alliance route? Were there even oil fueling facilities at Sheridan, Gillette, Edgemont, Alliance? I am guessing the photo was actually taken somewhere on the Casper side where oil burners _were_ used.
Which brings up some questions I've had for decades about CB&Q oil burners:
1. What routes did oil burners run on?
2. What stations/terminals on the CB&Q had oil fueling facilities?
3. How were the CB&Q oil burners from Casper/Greybull to Laurel Montana fueled at the NP's roundhouse at Laurel? The NP did not have oil burners so was there oil fuel facilities there just for the Q?

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