Can Someone Tell Me What These Are?

[jereising]

This is a modern fuel rack.  Can someone tell me what are the yellow, red, and blue colored items?



Thanks!

[Spades]

Tried right clicking the image for a Google search. It got me to the Trains article.  Try Google fu on every variation of: Diesel locomotive fueling arm Union Pacific Railroad & Santa Teresa NM.  Tons of info, but no answer. Fueling nozzles(arms) have to be color coded and UP uses different fuels as well as Emissions-Reducing Technologies.

I know it didn't answer the question.

G

[sd45elect2000]

They all look like forklift totes to me. Perhaps the taller one is for Nalco water treatment as it looks to be about the right height for adding treatment to the cooling system . Perhaps the other two are lube oil , compressor oil, governor oil or even water for filling batteries. They can be carried around where they are needed , they don't appear to be fixed in one spot. Maybe they load them onto a service truck for outlying locations where locomotives need service/





Randy

[Rich_S]

They all look like forklift totes to me. Perhaps the taller one is for Nalco water treatment as it looks to be about the right height for adding treatment to the cooling system . Perhaps the other two are lube oil , compressor oil, governor oil or even water for filling batteries. They can be carried around where they are needed , they don't appear to be fixed in one spot. Maybe they load them onto a service truck for outlying locations where locomotives need service/

Randy

Randy, you are on the right track but they are not portable, at least the ones we have are not portable. It's been quite some time since I worked on our inbound pits, but the boxes hold retractable hoses and the hose is accessed at the end of the neck. I don't remember the color codes, but they are lube oil, water, compressor oil and one should also be a sand hose.  The small yellow stand, that is close to ground level in the photo, probably holds the hose for dumping the locomotive toilets into the underground holding tanks. If I remember correctly, each one of those boxes is heated for winter operations and that is why the hoses are inside the necks that extend above the different color boxes.

 

[jereising]

I think Rich has it.

I've been looking at these in various pictures for a couple months now, and getting nowhere in my googles.

I figured there'd be someone here with the answer, and I was right.

I figured sand at least, because in all the pix with these devices, there are no sand towers. 

So now I'm wondering what color the sand feed box would be.   Blue seems to be very common...

Oakville's servicing facility is getting a makeover.

Thanks to all!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Look at the colors: they're clearly for Google Locomotive, duh! lol

[nscaler711]

Look at the colors: they're clearly for Google Locomotive, duh! lol

Please dear god no!! Don't say that blasphemy! I might literally have to gouge out my eyes or just off myself...    

[basementcalling]

Looks like life sized LEGOs to me.

[Spades]

From trainboard: Glendive still has a mobile sand gantry and no big orange boxes, so that would probably be correct about the big orange sanders. The blue is water and the little white trailers are "honey-wagons," as they are called here. DEmergency showers are a OSHA requirement for working around the fuel and oils. The yellow boxes are for fusees and torpedoes.

Here is the link: http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/diesel-shop.68113/page-4