Re: Max 11 tank cars for two-engine Cumbres Turn . . .
| July 25, 2018 12:29PM |
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Tomstp Wrote:
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> That video of Gregg's showing an all oil tank
> car train (about 20 cars) is really something.
> I never knew that much oil and number of cars
> ever got sent all at once. Hey, that's a "unit train".
> On southwest standard gauge lines unit oil trains
> were nothing new in the 1920's forward.
I counted eleven cars rounding Windy Point, Tom -
Which I believe was the maximum number of loaded tank cars that two K-36's or K-37's could handle from Chama to Cumbres. There are also eleven tank cars in this oft-posted Tom Gildersleeve photo of a Cumbres Turn crossing Lobato Trestle in October, 1962:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> That video of Gregg's showing an all oil tank
> car train (about 20 cars) is really something.
> I never knew that much oil and number of cars
> ever got sent all at once. Hey, that's a "unit train".
> On southwest standard gauge lines unit oil trains
> were nothing new in the 1920's forward.
I counted eleven cars rounding Windy Point, Tom -
Which I believe was the maximum number of loaded tank cars that two K-36's or K-37's could handle from Chama to Cumbres. There are also eleven tank cars in this oft-posted Tom Gildersleeve photo of a Cumbres Turn crossing Lobato Trestle in October, 1962:
Photo copyright © 1962, 2007 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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