Wet feed and grain cars can also spontaneously combust. They smell like a million cheap cigars burning all at once.
Going back a few posts...it's easy to see how that K&T Supply would take several months to build. It looks terrific!!!
Some recent photos, seeing what I can do with photo focus stacking software. Here we are just south of Cherokee, pushing a few cars around in ~1908.
What this place really needs is some petroleum products, up from Oklahoma... Starting some weathering on a few old-timey tank cars. The initial coat of VMS "matt" finish and just a bit of grimy black really knocks down the shine. Compare to the Chickasaw car on the left that has not yet been started. Hope you are having a good one.... -Bob T.
I have both Chickasaw tank cars and yes they are quite glossy. Was there ever such an actual company?
Now HERE is a loud tank car! And glossy too! I had no idea it would be that bright when I bought it. Mainly because all of the town names on it are about 100 miles from my home. I’ve only run them once, and they are so bright. I can hardly stand them on the layout.
You know, I never considered that. It does appear as a valid reporting mark (later reassigned) at: http://www.pwrr.org/rrm/rrmc.html And there is a record of the bankruptcy and sale of tank cars: https://books.google.com/books?id=c...nepage&q="chickasaw refining company"&f=false I don't have a picture of the prototype. -Bob T.
I would imagine that a creosote tank car would get pretty gunky pretty quickly. I like the old stuff too, being slightly old myself!
That’s why the dome and the tank below the dome are black. Creosoting plants are very nasty. There is still one up in Wiggins Mississippi, about 25 miles from here. I’m surprised it’s still there. I had thought that creosote had been outlawed. Almost all of the new power poles are a light green now, treated with copper sulfate or something more environmentally friendly.
Penta was the replacement, but it’s also a carcinogen and is being phased out. Maybe the green poles are Wolmanized. And how weird we know all this.
It’s not really that weird when you realize how much preserved wood is part of the railroad landscape; trestles, pole lines, etc. In the late 1800s, the development of the creosoting process was a major advancement in railroad track technology, allowing cross tie replacement every 30 or so years instead of quite often with untreated ties. I don’t think it would be a far-fetched statement that railroads were probably the biggest customer of the creosote companies.
... with a little help from my (Frisco) friends! As with many posts, there are several of you represented in the photo. -Bob T.
