--- In STMFC@..., "ed_mines" <ed_mines@...> wrote:
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On the topic of petroleum products just about everywhere I've lived finished petroleum products have been and are delivered by water. Were tank cars ever loaded at waterside terminals?
Sure. According to Gehrke's "Freight Traffic Geography of the Seaboard Air Line", in 1950 much of the petroleum delivered to Florida got to Tampa by ship, was loaded into tank cars there.
