Re: IOX 2144 & MDC 6k gallon OT tank car
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Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...>
Richard Hendrickson wrote:
Definitely a UTL Class X tank car, Ron. UTL apparently had a closeImperial Oil was 70% owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (trade name ESSO). UTL was the lessor for all "Baby Standard" fleets after the break up of the Trust in 1911. According to Carr's ROCKEFELLER'S SECRET WEAPON, UTL insisted upon being the exclusive lessor for companies it served. As some of the "Baby Standard's" bought operations outside the Standards Oil framework after the break up of the Trust, the Baby Standards did own their own tank cars. But the business seems to have been limited to areas in which the purchased organizations operated - e.g. Socony Vacuum (later Mobil) purchased the Magnolia Petroleum Co. in 1928, and the MPCX were still in effect in the 1950's; Socony also purchased a number of small Mid West operators in the 1930's, and their tank cars operated independently of UTL finally forming the core of tank cars using the SVX and SVM reporting marks. IOX was probably kept apart from UTL in an effort to separate Canadian from American operations until the 1950's. Tim Gilbert Also, it was definitely a 6K gal. car;
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