Rob & Jeff,
I'll stick my neck out on this one, too, as like you, Jeff, the lack of a
dome was noticed yesterday when the photo was viewed and I also wondered about
the marine boiler possibility. Somewhere in this room I have a builders photo
of a pitch car that was acquired just because it was so "unusual". It
definitedly had a dome and it also had openings in the end for running steam
through it to get the stuff to move in cold weather. If I can recall where it
is filed perhaps it can be scanned and posted. Let's hope!
Don Valentine
Jeff Pinchbeck <jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob,
Are you talking about the car that's in front of two tank cars? I blew the
photo up and I don't see a dome on the car. It looks more like a marine
boiler strapped on a flat car to me. The large openings on the end would be
the flues.
Jeff
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From: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Kirkham
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:43 PM
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cpsig] BC Forestry Museum pitch tank car
A while ago there was some discussion on this list of a car that is part of
the collection at the BC forestry museum. It is unusual because of the
multiple pipes protruding out the one end. We called it a pitch car, I
think? In any event, I jsut found an in service photo of one of these
cars - not a clear shot but clear enough. Its in the City of Vancouver
Library Photo collection as photo #30290. If you search their site by that
number, it comes up as a yard shot on the Vancouver waterfront, taken from
the viaduct over the tracks to Pier D, looking railway east.
<http://www3.
<http://www3.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/spe/histphotos/photos-search.htm>
vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/spe/histphotos/photos-search.htm>
Rob Kirkham
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