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Nostalgia & History > R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the ELDate: 10/19/16 15:50 R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: refarkas The R. H. Bogle Company weed control train is on the EL at Voris Street in Akron, Ohio in early 1972.
Image one: The train. Image two: RHBX 305 is the control car for the weed control train. Bob   Date: 10/19/16 17:24 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: EL3600 I wonder what herbicide was used?
Date: 10/19/16 19:51 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: garr With the ribbed sides, is that a former Milwaukee Road passenger car?
Jay Date: 10/19/16 20:09 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: wabash2800 I was wodering the same thing, but have seen similar construction in foreign countries.
Victor A. Baird http://www.erstwhilepublications.com garr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With the ribbed sides, is that a former Milwaukee > Road passenger car? > > Jay Date: 10/19/16 20:44 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: elu34ch Great shot. There was a thread about weed control not long ago. In one of the EL books several pictures show the operation using a deck gun with no haz protection.
Date: 10/20/16 05:36 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: train1275 EL must have had an on-going contract with Bogle as on August 5, 1973 this very unit was in Upstate NY on the Richfield Springs Branch as lensed by railfan Charles Ballard at the Route 20 crossing (Gano's) just outside of Richfield Springs shoved by GP-7 #1404.
I remember these units as a kid in the 60's and also recall the manual brush gangs that worked through cutting brush from fence line to fence line.  Date: 10/20/16 06:48 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: march_hare EL3600 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder what herbicide was used? In that era, almost certainly 2,4-D. (Better known as Agent Orange, from its military use in Vietnam, where it was being very heavily used at the time) Date: 10/20/16 10:30 Re: R. H. Bogle Company Weed Control Train - On the EL Author: train1275 Lots of nasty 'stuff' back then such as Sodium Chlorate, Sodiium Metaborate at 300Lbs. / acre.....
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