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Re: Oil extraction

Ed the cars I'm talking about, I believe, were carrying asphalt. The steam went into the car's internal heating coils. Clark Propst

By Clark Propst · #97155 ·

Re: Dished Tank Head

Dave Remember that as you are looking at a photo of a Class V car that you are looking at the jacket head and not the tank head. The shape of the tank head is "semi-ellipsoidal" in general but the

By Tom Birkett <tnbirke@...> · #97153 ·

Ventilated Box Cars

All, The retirement of the Westerfields, along with Wright Trak's new offering, has forced me to examine the VM, VA, and VS populations during WWII as part of attempting to build a "balanced"

By devansprr · #97154 ·

Re: Oil extraction

Ed Mines asked: "Did steam locos burn crude?" No. While Bunker C appears to be crude oil at first look, it is actually the heavier residue left behind after lighter fuels (gasoline, kerosene,

By Benjamin Hom · #97152 ·

Re: Oil extraction

Steam engines burned No. 6 fuel oil, also called "Bunker C." The other constituants of crude oil make it too valuable to burn, although at one time some may have neen consumed that way. As comparison:

By Tom Birkett <tnbirke@...> · #97151 ·

Re: Oil extraction

Clark, I supervised loading an expensive chemical into a tank car. There was no seal at the dome; you could look inside with a flashlight (my job was to do that to make sure the tank didn't

By ed_mines · #97150 ·

Dished Tank Head

I'm building a cad model of a UTLX type V tank car per the drawings found on page 344 of the 1906 CBD. I have a question about the term "Dish" as it relates to the tank head. I hope some of you

By Dave Nelson · #97149 ·

UTLX History

I stumbled upon this .pdf <http://www.utlx.com/pdf/TankCarHistory.pdf> while trying to find something about the type V cars. I think list members would enjoy some of the older photos. Dave

By Dave Nelson · #97148 ·

Re: Oil extraction

Thanks Tom. In the photos I have there is the steam line attached under the tank car and a hose into the dome. The dome hose goes to the front of the trailer. Another hose comes from the front to the

By Clark Propst · #97147 ·

Re: Ventilated Box Cars

Dave, I believe that Ambroid did a ventilated kit, in both O and HO. Chuck Hladik

By Charles Hladik · #97160 ·

Re: Oil extraction

These have been used for sulfur unloading also. Because sulfur is so heavy, cars were easily overloaded and before the railroad would move them, the load must be reduced. The system is pretty

By Tom Birkett <tnbirke@...> · #97146 ·

Oil extraction

I have a couple photos of trailers with boilers and (gas?) engine operated pumps for siphoning heavy oil from tank cars. Can anyone tell me more about the components and operation of these extraction

By Clark Propst · #97145 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box Gondola

Revell model kits from roughly this same era, their airplane models for example, are referred to as "Box Scale" by collector of these kits. Bill Welch

By Bill Welch · #97144 ·

Re: PS-0 end drawings needed

Jim, These cars were produced in two lot number groups by Pullman-Standard. To find the applicable drawings, Ted will ask you for the lot numbers if you don't know the actual drawing numbers. Lot

By Ed Hawkins · #97143 ·

Re: PS-0 end drawings needed

Tim, Unfortunately I believe John Nehrich PS-0 designation has created confusion. In my humble opinion there are two groups of early Pullman-Standard boxcars. The first group from the mid-1930s that

By rwitt_2000 · #97142 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box Gondola

Except they didn't fit in the box. The 50' box cars and the 50' gondola had to be jammed into the box diagonally which put a lot of pressure on the couplers. Some of the longer cars had the box

By Schuyler Larrabee · #97141 ·

Re: PS-0 end drawings needed

Jim, I have some bad news for you. As far as I know, that end was never drawn in the CBC, anyway, the drawings that have made it into the CBC do not really contain enough information to completely

By Jim King · #97140 ·

Re: Sunshine at Timoniun

The Lofton's made it and were doing brisk business as of Noon Saturday! Dave Evans

By devansprr · #97139 ·

Re: parts is parts (was B&O wagontop)

Like Tungsten -- denser and easier to obtain than depleted Uranium. -- Nolan Hinshaw, native Californian since 1944 "Every freight train has at least one NP box car" the Brock Corollary to the GN

By Nolan Hinshaw · #97138 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box Gondola

Except they didn't fit in the box. The 50' box cars and the 50' gondola had to be jammed into the box diagonally which put a lot of pressure on the couplers. Some of the longer cars had the box

By Andy Harman · #97137 ·

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