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From: "Ron" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:27:18 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W Oil Houses?
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Dave,

I have diagrams of the oil house at Scranton. Being near the main shops, it
was a substantial structure. These diagrams are from a book published in
1907 - "Railway Shop Up To Date".

Ron Dukarm


>
> I'm trying to find other examples of 'oil houses' along the DL&W. The
> picture I'm attaching here is the 'bunker' found at Branchville Junction
> (3 miles north of Newton, NJ on the Lackawanna Sussex Branch.) From the
> newspaper information of the area, I can only surmise that it was built
> in 1905 as quite a lot of 'fixup' was done on the Sussex Branch in 1905.
>
> My val maps label the structure as 'oil house' plus I've been unable to
> actually define its function. An oil house is typically used to house
> kerosene or oil and they are usually stone or concrete to contain the
> explosion, right? But there is mention of this one housing (possibly) a
> gasoline powered pump or a gasoline pump.
>
> Anyway, in my searching around of photos, I have yet to find a similar
> example of one of these on the DL&W (or anywhere for that matter.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Rutan


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