[CBQ] New Rapido UTLX 10,000 Gallon X-3 Insulated Tank Cars

["Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

Rapido just announced a new run of their UTLX X-3 tank cars that includes 10,000 Gallon X-3 Insulated Tank Cars which among other things, were used to carry asphalt. Why this is of importance to Q modelers is that large blocks of these cars are confirmed as traveling on Train 97 from Galesburg to Savanna and on to the GB&W interchange at East Winona for destinations along the GB&W in Wisconsin. These cars were in the UTLX 60000-62999 series and the UTLX 64000-64999 and 66000-67999 series. The Rapido cars being offered are  60016, 60064, 60503, 60531, 61714, 62288 and fit perfectly for CB&Q asphalt transport use.

We have very few CB&Q wheel reports for Train 97 (I only have three), and two of these have large blocks of asphalt cars. For example CB&Q Train 97 on June 4, 1966 (summer road work season) has a block of 11 UTLX tank cars that contains the following 10 UTLX X-3 cars carrying asphalt bound for East Winona GB&W interchange: 67241, 61944, 61826, 62634, 62949, 62959, 62088, 67130, 64508, 61935, 66172. All 10 cars are destined for Asphalt Products Company is Stevens Point, WI on the GB&W.

CB&Q Train 97 on July 21, 1966 (also summer road work season) has a block of 10 UTLX X-3 tank cars carrying asphalt bound for East Winona GB&W interchange and then to WAUCOUHIG (Waupaca County Highway Department) in Ogdensburg, WI on the GB&W: 62420, 62886, 66699, 67924, 62397, 62484, 61690, 69050, 66966, 60812.

The significant blocks of asphalt cars that turn up in just 2 of 3 CB&Q wheel reports indicates to me that this was a common CB&Q shipment, at least in the summer of 1966 on the CB&Q to GB&W. So I am buying a number of these cars to run in a block. 

The question now is, where did the asphalt come from? Was there a major refinery or facility that produced asphalt that would have been carried on Train 97 and perhaps then to other parts of the CB&Q system as well?

(I have no affiliation with Rapido but am VERY glad to see them doing these insulated 10,000 gallon X-3 tank cars!)

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Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
Modeling Chicago-Mpls/StP 1965-merger

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