The oil train took the siding for a Pipe train…
As Dave mentioned, the Farmington branch saved the narrow ga. It’s his story, I’ll supply some pics…
Flat car idlers were used to allow for longer sections of pipe.
Well that’s Markers on this sidetrack.
John
You are not alone…
I mentioned Mik’s thread, this was his interest:
The Oscillating head provides back and forth motion to power remote pumps. The poles outside removed the horizontal movement from the head and sent pure forward/reverse out…
Well there’s some more food for thoughts.
John
Thanks John… I’v been so tied up of late, I didn’t get to the pics to prove the point. The top pic with thressle is located where now US 550 and 160 meet just South of Durango and about 1/4 mile south of “Carbon Junction” The tressle is still standing and used to hold pipeline across the valley.
Pic two, and three, were shot from what the locals call “Bondad Hill”. A favorite photo spot for train shooting. Note the lack of smoke from the engine. From Durango to Farmington (about 50 miles). was all down hill, and they just kinda coasted on down.
Pics 4 &5 were actually on the C&T
On pic 6, note the three rails through out the yard. This is from Alamosa where the pipe and Outgoing Oil was transferred to or from Standard gage to the narrow-gauge system.
And I don’t know where the last pic was shot it. It looks like it could have been at one of the coal mines between Chama and Dulce, East of Lumberton. Only a Guess.
I have in an archive pics of the Oil cars coming out of Farmington headding North to Durango, to the RGS to Ridgeway to D&RGW to Grand Junction.
Funny how threads can take on a life of their own. Great work John, it has been enlightening. This is just an industry that seems to have not seen its share of modeling that could be/ should be quite fun.
Yes you need a wooden barrel.
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John Caughey said:
Yes you need a wooden barrel.
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Thanks,
I think I have an idea now how to model one
Devin, I have a few pics of a oil barrel I took this summer at a steam show if you are interested…
Travis Dague said:
Devin, I have a few pics of a oil barrel I took this summer at a steam show if you are interested…
Sure, I would love to see the pictures. I am always interested in prototypical pictures. Even if they are a barrel.
