Annapolis Royal Texaco Bulk Plant

Annapolis Royal Texaco Bulk Plant

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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  Westbound plow extra at Annapolis Royal passing the freight shed and the water tower on February 20,1952.

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  Water tower at left, station in centre and freight shed at right at Annapolis Royal on August 27, 1956.

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  Loading Christmas Trees (firs) at Annapolis Royal with tank cars at the bulk plant in background, 1956.

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  Texaco bulk plant, Annapolis Royal in 1957.

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  Texaco bulk plant, Annapolis Royal, 1962.

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  Annapolis Royal Station and Freight Shed with the Texaco bulk fuel plant in the background on August 5, 1973.

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  Annapolis Royal Station with freight shed and fuel tank cars at the Texaco bulk fuel siding on August 5, 1973.