Tom,
A primary source of asphalt is oil refineries. It is created by using
one of by-products of the refining process mixed with rock. Even after
the Standard Oil monopoly breakup circa 1910, the various Standard Oil
companies still used UTLX cars as UTLX was originally part of Standard
Oil. A good estimate would be the cars came from the large Standard Oil
of Indiana refinery at Whiting, IN. Wisconsin was in the Standard Oil of
Indiana marketing territory.
Other refinery shippers did use UTLX. According to Steve Hile's UTLX
book, UTLX over the years absorbed tank cars from Skelly, Pure Oil,
Marathon, Shell and Conoco. So I think it is reasonable to expect they
used UTLX cars when needed to ship product. Shell had a refinery in
Roxanna IL which is on the Illinois side of St. Louis.
I found this map of the Standard Oil marketing territories in the late
1960s:
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This is why brands such as Esso had branding such as Humble and Indiana
Standard had American and UTOCO to sell product in the other Standard
marketing areas.
Bill HIrt
On 6/15/2024 11:12 AM, Tom Mack via groups.io wrote:
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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