Original Kodachrome Slide, August 27, 1956. Annapolis Royal Water Tower at left, station in centre and freight shed at right at Annapolis Royal, NS.

This description for the tank car was given on the forum on November 11, 2008: (http://dardpi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30)

Doug Shaffner of Annapolis Royal recalls:

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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