January 1947 8101 - 9299, 1008 active cars (If Wilson Mgt. kept their register listing up to date better than I did when I managed the rail fleet for Phillips Petroleum Co.) Fyi, there ate WCLX cars s

Others may have Interchange Rule book closer to 1949, but the rules effective 1-1-53 Revised 1952 show the interval at 15 months. Tom Birkett, Bartlesville, OK Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&

I hesitate to mention the cars I leased out for beet juice that were last contained sodium hydroxide, not clean. We don't buy beet derived sugar at our house. Another question: in the steam era were b

Similar octagonal building north of an abandoned carbon black plant we leased to load tank cars of crude oil. It was on the T and NM and looked factory made about 10 years ago but the building looked

John I always appreciate your comments even on commodities as common as sand. We have ATSF 940 on display her in Bartlesville and I have been surprised at how many references and photos exist of a loc

When I was doing time studies on repair of wrecks in Topeka Shops in the 1970s, I was surprised to see odd holes punched ( not burned with a torch) in the body bolsters of FE-24s. A little investigati

Tony: I am Phillips Petroleum Co. retiree and conocoPhillips and now Phillips 66 Company after a merger and divorce own the rights to the 76 brand. I will try to slip by the museum tomorrow and see if

Tony: I am Phillips Petroleum Co. retiree and conocoPhillips and now Phillips 66 Company after a merger and divorce own the rights to the 76 brand. I will try to slip by the museum tomorrow and see if

Looks like what we call sumac on Oklahoma Tom Birkett, Bartlesville Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

They need a load shifter: there was one at the New Rip at Argentine which had been there for a LONG time. It was like a wood guillotine that was lowered until it could contact the pipe or culvert or l

It does look like a DOT 105, which are insulated and used for AA, anhydrous ammonia. I have drawings of both ACF and GATX versions of this car in 11,000 gallon size . These drawings supported the buil

It does look like a DOT 105, which are insulated and used for AA, anhydrous ammonia. I have drawings of both ACF and GATX versions of this car in 11,000 gallon size . These drawings supported the buil

These were the oldest cars in the fleet, and I believe that many riveted shell cars were not leaded back but Ihave been u able to verify completely. Tom Birkett, Bartlesville Sent via the Samsung Gala

All: I managed the PPCo tank car fleet after the end of this group, but do know some of the history. The first refinery was at Borger, TX the same you Phillips started selling gasoline at retail stati

The GACX cars would likely have had a Barber truck: depending on the year builtS-2 or S-3. The General American sales and maintenance guys said that Barber was their favored truck for decades. Thomas

I thought that I mentioned date in , date out information for Equipment Registers. Built in 1928 out of the Register on 1935. I am guessing that the car made a load or two and then went into storage u

Elden This was a very early pressure car built by ACF, I expect at Milton, PA. Your builder's photo shows the car as built in 4-28. The photo I enclose shows a light weigh date of 5-28 in Bartlesville

I believe that calcium carbide was used to generate acetylene gas which was used for welding/brazing and maybe lighting at one time. It is unstable so is shipped dissolved in acetone…not very safe so

I thought that the stack was a flare that would take care of vapors off crude oil loads. The headers along the ground might be various petroleum products that might be loaded. But a flare is not going

Very old cars may have end and bottom center connections( usually 2 inch pipe). Later cars had center connections. In my experience all had chains to keep the unloaded a from losing the caps. Tom Birk