Re: (erielack) team tracks without platforms

[jguthrie_@_pipeline.com]

I believe tar would come in a box car -- in bricks, would it not?

IIRC, it gets thrown into a heater, melted, then used in paving and other jobs, and hardened again when cooled.

Except on hot days when it stuck to your shoes and left tracks on Mom's carpet . . . 

Cheers,
Jim


- -----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Oravec <MOEL_@_paonline.com>
>Sent: Apr 18, 2007 5:27 PM
>To: EL Mail List <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>, Louis Schultheis <VSX9000@msn.com>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) team tracks without platforms
>
>Louis Schultheis wrote:
>>     Tar was unloaded by the Penna. Highway Dept. for use on roads at the Moscow, Pa. team track in the '60s.
>>
>>     If I can find the waybill I'll scan and post it......
>>
>>     Lou	
>>   
>Lou,
>
>I am assuming this was a tank car.  Hope you can find the waybill and 
>post it; I'd really like to see it.
>
>In July '58 a tank car consigned to the Pennsylvania Department of 
>Highways on a siding at Lake Ariel caught fire.  The paper said it was a 
>D&H tanker with about 10,000 gallons of oil for use in road projects.  
>When loaded some of the fuel overflowed the valve and seeped down 
>between the insulating jackets.  Some guys were attempting to free the 
>valve with a "torch" and ignited the fumes.  Fortunately, the LA 
>Volunteer Fire Dept. responded before there was an explosion.
>
>Mike Oravec
>
>
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