I remember those sitting at Shoreham back when I was a conductor back in 1999.
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If there's an article out there about these, I'd love to read it. I've seen other lines' fuel tenders on this site, but none that looked like this.
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Looks like stripped out slugs, then made taller.
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| Posted by FSWood on December 18, 2012 | |
Had read in the 80s about BN fuel tenders but the brain had not thought about any other lines having some.
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From what I was told when I worked there was that the SOO used to fill these up at Chicago & haul them up here to Shoreham to fill up their storage tank, but then Wisconsin & Illinois wanted their fuel tax paid just like the over the road truckers have to pay to drive thru their state, so the SOO quit doing this since the "Cheap" fuel now got to be the same price as what they could get it for here in Minnesota. I'm not sure if this is correct, but that's what I was told.
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At least one is still around as a remote control unit for SD pairs in hump service. With the Toronto Hump closed in Autumn 2012, her future is less secure, although for now the remote SD40-2's find employment pushing (but not humping) cuts over the hump for flat sorting at the pull-down.
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