Canadian railways in general did not have revenue
tank cars. Tank cars in revenue service were
mostly privately owned fleets. This largely
because tank cars generally were used for hauling
specific commodities and mixing cargos resulted in contamination.
Both CN and CP operated tank cars largely used
for OCS water haulage, Thes were used as
auxilliary water supplies for stem locomotives
and other steam powered cars. I have seen them
trailing locos generally but also behind the
tender on a rotary snow plow or crane. In the
railway OCS tank car fleet many old tenders also
were used to supplement tank cars bought out of
private fleets. Water cars frequently were in work train consists.
Now although railway tank cars were generally
used only in OCS service there are pictures of
railway owned tank cars in revenue service. I
can think of two cases of the top of my head. CP
hauling water for a plant with a frozen water
supply from a CPR water tank. Another shows CN
cars unloading an oil cargo from a great lakes tanker.
Other tank cars were seen in OCS oil or fuel
services but these cars were never, in my
knowledge, used outside of Company service.
As for paint schemes, CP script or CPRail got on to some tank cars.
One final comment. Many of the water cars lost
their top dome as they were not needed once they
were only used for water transport. These cars
generally had a platform with simple railing and a hatch on top.
So if you have company owned tank cars, they
should generally not be at the local fuel dealed
delivering a load. More likely if this occurred,
they would be getting a load for OCS uses.
Peter
At 09:33 AM 13/06/2015, you wrote:
i'm always fearful of replying to a subject
I know deadfully little about (which is why I
lurk grin!). But I had made a rather shocking
discovery when reading the CP Colour guide to
Freight and Passenger Equipment by John Riddell.
Based on the sampling of tank cars in this book
- they were all OCS service cars, woth none in
revenue service. (I also learned there was never
a script scheme so my H&D Canada painted up tank cars appear to be foobies ).
As I say it is only a sample of schemes in the
book and obviously a book of this historical
nature isn't going to be total so there might
have been tank cars in revenue, but per the
book they were most likely moving fuel oil to
various company consumers, and the odd service water car.
Michael
On Jun 13, 2015 12:49 AM, "DAVID LEECH
<mailto:d.leech@xxxxxxxxxx>d.leech@xxxxxxxxxx
[cpsig]" <<mailto:cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Rob,
I have found it listed in the 1985 Freight
Equipment Roster, on page 22 under "Detailed
List of Tanks, Work Equipment ...etc.
Doesn't help you as just says that it is a "WATER TANK - WQT - 415833.
Now you just need someone to tell you when it
was moved from revenue service so you 'might'
have a clue as to it's original number and capacity.
Cheers,
David Leech, Delta
On 2015-06-12, at 8:13 AM, Robert
<mailto:rdkirkham@xxxxxxx>rdkirkham@xxxxxxx [cpsig] wrote:
> thanks for the suggestion David, but no luck. What I really want is a
> gallons number for the tank so need to go
back to the in service number (pre
> re numbering in 4xxxxx series).
>
> Rob
>
