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From: "David MonteVerde" david AT gvtrail DOT com
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 11:34:47 -0400
Subject: DL&W Oilier x-bobber caboose
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The attached photo of a Lackawanna Oiler car was converted from 'bobber
caboose'. The Lackawanna had heavy eastbound concentration of meat and
vegetable trains that moved in iced refers, as a result the melting ice
water had a lot of salt in/on it to lessen the melting factor. Well if you
look at an old ice refer you will see a rectangular drip trough in the four
corners of the car where the melting water dripped on the tie plates and
rail. I was told that the Lackawanna used this oil sprayer car to oil the
joint bars bolts to prevent them from rusting up and being difficult to
maintain. Some of the oil must have slopped down on the tie plates also that
were susceptible to rust from the salt brine, but nothing protected the
bridges.



As an operator of pieces of the Lackawanna, and a fan of the DL&W I know
all of the eastbound bridges on the DL&W suffered from accelerated
rust-deterioration from the years of melting salt brine. On our Depew
Lancaster & Western RR Bridge in Depew, our bridge over the Lehigh Valley,
pictured above with a Lackawanna Hudson on it, has the eastbound track swung
over onto the westbound span; the G&W bridge at Mt. Morris was rehabbed 15
years ago and at that time they swung the eb main over to the westbound
bridges (see attached http://binged.it/26Ts4Yn ) and some of the re-habable
eastbound spans were removed and used for the new bridge over Canaseraga
Creek when the G&W built the new spur to the American Rock Salt Plant at
Hampton Corners http://binged.it/24qS2Uf . I believe that the B&H has had
major rehabs of their eastbound Lackawanna Bridges. On our
Delaware-Lackawanna we reworked Bridge60; before we took over the lone the
City of Scranton rebuilt all of the bridges up to Moscow, and in a number of
places beyond Moscow we have done span swaps.







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