Hello John, Thanks for the link to the images for Sunset Oil Company.I think we may be on to something here.The printing shown at the top of the oil can images is almost identical to that

No Richard, your wrong. Northwestern Refrigerator Line (NWX) was NOT a subsidiary of the C&NW, although it was closely-allied with the C&NW and provided refrigerator car for them. It's

The Perfactory machine mentioned by Charlie is being used by Mark Gasson of Mark 4 Design down under in New Zealand for direct manufacturing of some Z and N scale rolling stock and other products and

Tony, Thanks for the interesting background information. I can remember the "Flying A" from my childhood. Jim Quoting Anthony Thompson

Brian, While I have no comment on their similarity to PFE equipment I can say that after going through hundreds of 1959 train consists I have only found one instance where an IC car was used for what

Doug Harding, please e-mail me off-line, I've lost your e-mail address. Richard Hendrickson

Richard Hendrickson wrote: To give a little background on this interesting company: Tidewater was one of the oldest American oil companies, having origins in the Pennsylvania oil book of the

Joel, in the steam era Tidewater Associated Oil Co. had three branches, eastern, midwestern, and western, each with their own tank car fleets. Eastern tidewater cars operated under TWOX reporting

Thank You! wrote: industry the the the Cajon and to

Proto 2000 definitely did a 10,000 gallon TWOX (Tidewater Oil) tank car. These could be seen in the northeastern U.S. Tidewater also leased UTLX LP tank cars. ( Frank Hodina model, RMJ 7/1989 ) Tim

I think P2K lettered one of their 8,000 gal tank cars for Tidewater. Quoting joel norman <mec-bml@...>:

I WAS GIVEN A MEC SWITCH LIST FOR JAN 1961 AND IT HAD A REPORTING MARK OF TWOX AND IT WAS LOADED WITH OIL( HOME HEATING??? )ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS COMPANY?WAS IT A NEW ENGLAND COMPANY?AND IN

I'm trying to find out about the freight equipment (if any) owned by the Lowell & Southern Railway that operated in LaSalle County, Illinois, to the north of Leonore from about 1927 to about 1930,

Dan, Checked one of my online resources, and found an image of a Los Angeles City map from Sunset Oil Company, Los Angeles, California. The site says it is from 1946, and that Sunset was purchased

Olin, Warren did not show any western home points for its cars in the ORERs. However, Warren was the largest marketer of LPG in North America in the post-WW-II era and sold its products in all

Tim, Ran across the following in "Enterprise in Oil" while looking up another matter... "Even with the expanding domestic market it enjoyed during the Twenties, Shell in common with most California

that has only part of it's original company name left on it's upper side.The name as I can best make out begins with the word SUN in dark 8 to 10 inch Roman print and ends with the words OIL COMPANY

I think this belongs on the CGW group because it's too new for here. See you there. Clark Propst

Is anyone aware of any photos, memories, plats, or train or industry lists that would give some indication as to what destinations in California and via what roads the Warren cars went? Thanks, Olin

Jack- Yes.... but there are no "printing" processes that I have seen that are adequate for Rapid Prototyping of any parts for us...... I hesitate to list all the processes that could be considered as