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Re: (erielack) Request

Mike,

Jan 1958 has no tank cars listed for the D&H.

They did have 15 "air activated container" cars, each holding 5 containers 
with a capacity of 22,000 lbs each. I believe these were similar to the DL&W 
cement container gons. Bulk cement to a high dept sounds very feasible. Oil 
in those containers? who knows?

Rich Chapin
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Oravec" <MOEL_@_paonline.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: (erielack) Request


> Mike Oravec wrote:
>> In July '58 a tank car consigned to the Pennsylvania Department of 
>> Highways on a siding at Lake Ariel (Erie's Lake Ariel Branch) 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
>>
> I am trying to find out what tank cars Delaware & Hudson might have had in 
> 1958.  Could someone on the list with an ORER from 1958 please check the 
> D&H listing and let me know.  (I have a July,1960 ORER and it doesn't show 
> any tank cars listed.)
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mike
>
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