| Small Oil Tank | |
 My Pumphouse uses an oil-engine. In essence it’s much like a diesel in that it is a compression-ignition engine but used oil instead of diesel for a fuel. I need a tank .. if or no other reason then it adds to the scene. I had originally planned to put it between the pumphouse loading dock road and the Coke Ovens. At some point I moved it up to the tracks and realized that it could now be used to re-fuel the diesels.
Now what? Not sure. I still don’t have an oil tank for the pumphouse. Not sure yet .. either I need to pipe over to the pumphouse .. or build another tank. Haven’t decided yet. |
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| ~1902 Oil Tank | |
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I found this great illustration of an oil tank used for locomotives. The book is titled “How oil is used for fuel on locomotives: Supplement to The Science of Railways”, Published in 1903. There is a crude drawing on page 14 showing a pair of the tanks at the servicing facility .. but the “Grand Prize” is on page 15 where we have an engineering drawing quite suitable for using to model the tank. I find it really fascinating .. as it sits on technological line separating the 19th and 20th century engineering. I have no idea when the tank was really constructed. The book was Copyright 1902-1903 so I just ‘plugged in’ the 1902 date. |
Lugoff, Camden and Northern RR
The Railroad connecting Northern South Carolina and Southern North Carolina
