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Re: (erielack) team tracks without platforms
Penna Dept of Highways got tank cars of tar for use in putting down tar and gravel to resurface roads. I remember these shipments to Martins Creek Jct. Their was a short spur track that at one time went to the True Blue Slate Quarry. It was about 15 feet above the road. The oil trucks would park under the tank car and be filled up directly from it.
Bob Stafford
jguthrie_@_pipeline.com wrote:
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
>Sent: Apr 18, 2007 5:27 PM
>To: EL Mail List , Louis Schultheis
>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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