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Sequoia #2011 flange and rail greaser

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Sequoia #2011 flange and rail greaser
Posted by rrebell on Saturday, March 21, 2020 12:21 PM

Have a bunch of these and have been unable to find out info on if appropriate for late 1930's time frame. Want to add as much detail as possible to new layout.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, March 21, 2020 3:19 PM

Heres a thread in the Trains forum from 2007, maybe you'll find some info there.

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/113802.aspx

Mike.

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Posted by Outsailing86 on Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:24 PM

I doubt they were around in the 30's 

 

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Posted by rrebell on Saturday, March 21, 2020 9:48 PM

Outsailing86

I doubt they were around in the 30's I know they used a soap grease with grafite added,

 

 

They were but what form did they take ?

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, March 21, 2020 10:37 PM

Some flange oilers were locomotive appliances:

 Flange by Edmund, on Flickr

 Flange_0001 by Edmund, on Flickr

Regards, Ed

 

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Posted by rrebell on Sunday, March 22, 2020 9:59 AM

Interestion, didn't know about those, but still need the info about the ones attached to the rails.

 

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