The car couldn't have travelled north to Portland on the UP, as the UP had no direct north-south line between Southern Calif. and the Columbia River. LA&SL to Utah, UP to Wyoming, and OWR&N to

There was also the Sunset Railway which operated in Kern County in the Sunset oil field. No indication in any of the sparse references to the Ry of an oil company. There was an interesting article in

Dan, I found a reference to a Sunset Oil Co. having an oil field or lease in Texas in 1939 on a web site which lists the oil field maps/documents on file at the Texas State Archives. Below

Fred is essentially correct – however, there are potential problems in modeling these cars. First of all Homgas was a very small tank car operator, with only one car in 1945 and only five cars by

To clarify, these car had a "shorter" or "lower" inside height. The cars were not as "tall" as the USRA SS boxcar. Bob Witt Bob Sterner wrote: CNW owned 6,630 of these! Various number series.

There's an article on the history of N.W.X. in one of the CNWHS magazines "Northwestern Lines". Clark propst

Joel, Homgas is correct lettering and paint. as are the locations. Pictures have appeared on this list with these cars behind steam on the Rutland, IIRC. Can't help with the lard cars.

Ive another tank car question: Purchased 2 Atlas 11,000 gal tank cars lettered for Homgas,one based at North Monson Mass and the other in Housatonic Mass Any history of this comapany?and are the HCGX

The RMC article says these were like USRA but five inches shorter. CNW owned 6,630 of these! Various number series. Bob Sterner SS

Does anyone have the Oct '03 issue of RMC with Ted's EFC *7 on C&NW SS boxcars? Is the subject USRA cars or what?? TIA Jerry Glow

Jerry Stewart wrote: Well, Jerry, it's the same color and size, says "NorthWestern" along the bar as does the C&NW emblem, and on many cars even has "N.W.X." in a small bar underneath, exactly

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