At least at the sugar plants I am aware of in Colorado, beets were not crushed into pulp. They were put through a slicer that cut them into “cossettes” that resembled French fries but with a

Thomas Birkett wrote: Sugar beets were partially steam cooked and shredded, and the pulp was the source of sugar. (Done all at one plant.) I would think that "beet juice" would be a vegetable

. It's hard enough already to carve out adequate time at the modeling bench. AMEN!! It’s hard enough to find the time to deal with the posts on a daily basis. I increasingly delete some

I hesitate to mention the cars I leased out for beet juice that were last contained sodium hydroxide, not clean. We don't buy beet derived sugar at our house. Another question: in the steam era were

It's nice to know oil was recycled in the 30's, but useless for the original question about the photo from the early 1900's. The oil cars belong to a Milwaukee Road predecessor, correct? Maybe someone

I found this shot in my files. It is a scan of a print that I purchased from Ted Culotta. Gene Deimling

My father always kept a 5 gallon can of reclaimed motor oil to run through our chainsaws. Part of what kept out house warm through the winter months in Virginia. Brent Dr. J. Brent Greer

I'm OK with Facebook but, let's face it, groups.io is a vastly superior vehicle for sharing information, contacting individuals, archiving photos and files, etc., etc. Search functions work great. I

Many must know this, but I’ll mention it here. The Navy cleans, tests, and recycles all lubricating oil. The old diesel subs(ie Bonefish, Blueback, Barbel-the ‘B’ sisters) even recycled the oil

They lined stock cars with cardboard and used them to ship grain, so why worry about sugar beets? Nothing like high protein corn flakes. Steve Sandifer

Used motor oil also used to be spread on dirt roads for dust control. That was a great way to get lead and other toxins into the environment. That's why the practice was ended. Richard

Friends, When I was much younger, many filling stations, especially locally-owned stations, sold reclaimed oil in bulk for automobile use. My father used to keep a couple of five-gallon cans of the

FYI, Union Pacific was reclaiming the distillate fuel from the lube oil in their McKeen cars during the late 1920s, and renewing the lube oil. David Thompson

One more comment on sugar beets, but a little different. In Wyoming the BN served a number of sugar beet plants. Lovell, Sheridan, Worland, Torrington, and perhaps some others. These were all

FWIW, Facebook has rapidly evolved from its origins as a college social board and now is a top notch site for hobby enthusiasts of all stripes. The Pre-Depression Era railroads is particularly good

Used oil also makes pretty good fuel for some applications and was transported for such. Mont Switzer

same name/web site? or different? sorry i don't do any social media thanks mel perry

I guess I’m gonna have get back into Facebook(had a bad experience). Everyone is migrating to FB. Bill S

Ray and Friends, To echo what Jerry said, I have been inside a sugar plant and saw how the refining process works. This was the C&H plant at Crockett, California, which processed cane sugar, but the

Bill S, Rio Grande Models posted it on thier Facebook page. I am excited to see it I still need a NG ballast spreader. Scott McDonald