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[[:Category:Doug Shaffner Photo|Doug Shaffner]] contributes this recollection for the wiki:
  
This tank car in the photo "Image:Annapolis Royal Station & Yard.jpg" is unloading gasoline for the Texaco bulk plant. This plant distributed gasoline and lubricating oils throughout Annapolis & Digby Counties and it was operated by my father from 1929 until 1962. During my teenage years I unloaded many tank cars from the facility shown in photo. A ten foot aluminum pipe would be balanced on my shoulder, I would walk out to the end of the car and then walk forward and drop this pipe down through the open dome. The horizontal pipe in photo would be swung up from the unloading rack and connected to the vertical pipe in the tank. A leather washer at this connection was a constant source of trouble. Underground pipes ran from here, under the north leg of the wye, to the storage tanks about 300 feet away. A single cylinder gas engine ran the pump, and it would take four hours to empty a large 8500 gallon tank car. Beyond the tank car in photo can be seen the unloading rack for the Imperial Oil bulk plant, which was adjacent to ours. They employed a series of jointed elbows, resulting in a much higher configuration.
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Beyond the tank car in photo can be seen the unloading rack for the Imperial Oil bulk plant, which was adjacent to [[Annapolis Royal Texaco Bulk Plant|ours]]. They employed a series of jointed elbows, resulting in a much higher configuration.
  
  
 
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Image:R85.jpeg|[[DAR0025|No. 25, Strathcona]] with a westbound express at the [[Annapolis Royal Station]]. Note also the [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed|freight shed]] and the [[Bulk Fuel Depots|bulk fuel]] facility behind the station.
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Image:R85.jpeg|[[DAR0025|No. 25, Strathcona]] with a westbound express at the [[Annapolis Royal Station]], circa 1920. Note also the [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed|freight shed]] and the [[Bulk Fuel Depots|bulk fuel]] facility behind the station.
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File:whiskeyteller.jpg|A passenger train at the [[Annapolis Royal Station]] with the [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed|freight shed]] and [[Annapolis Royal Esso Bulk Plant|Imperial Oil Bulk Plant]] and the old W&AR [[Annapolis Royal Enginehouse]] in background, circa 1920.
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Image:R-04-1 edited-1.jpg|Derailment in [[Annapolis Royal Railyard]] with box car [[DAR106308|DAR 106308]] and Imperial Oil car [[:Category:Tank Cars|tank car]] IOX2058 for the [[Annapolis Royal Esso Bulk Plant|Imperial Oil Bulk Plant]], May 7, 1922.
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File:201216023 detail.JPG|Fort Anne in foreground and in background: the [[Annapolis Royal Enginehouse]] from the west, [[Annapolis Royal Esso Bulk Plant]] and the [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed]], July 1931.
 
Image:Annapolis Royal Station & Yard.jpg|[[Annapolis Royal Water Tower|Water tower]] at left, [[Annapolis Royal Station|station]] in centre and [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed|freight shed]] at right at Annapolis Royal on August 27, 1956.
 
Image:Annapolis Royal Station & Yard.jpg|[[Annapolis Royal Water Tower|Water tower]] at left, [[Annapolis Royal Station|station]] in centre and [[Annapolis Royal Freight Shed|freight shed]] at right at Annapolis Royal on August 27, 1956.
 
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 18 May 2024

Annapolis Royal Esso Bulk Plant

Doug Shaffner contributes this recollection for the wiki:

Beyond the tank car in photo can be seen the unloading rack for the Imperial Oil bulk plant, which was adjacent to ours. They employed a series of jointed elbows, resulting in a much higher configuration.