Steve is right, and remember in the steam era there were a lot more refineries than in later years, but of course they were much smaller, which probably makes them more suitable for modeling. Another

Where there's coal in Pennsylvania, there are oilfields in Oklahoma. There famously was and is at least one producing well on the Capitol grounds on the near north side of OKC. Actually, there's coal

These are interesting photos. This car has 70-ton trucks, with an 8000 gallon capacity tank, so this must be a heavy acid like sulfuric. My brief search for this company has hit a dead end, because al

I know we're getting a bit off topic here, but the Atlantic Refinery at Port Arthur was founded around 1917, more than likely to draw from the Beaumont and East Texas oilfields, and to ship refined pr

For information, the Atlantic Refining Co. refinery mentioned was acquired by Fina (American Petrofina) past the timeline of this list, and operated under that name for upwards of thirty years. The Fi

Going by my own knowledge of the subject, there were two primary producers of tetraethyl lead. One was Ethyl Corporation and the other was DuPont. Both used their own dedicated tank cars. I don't know

Now I get it. This placard is not for use for the company doing the loading, unless they had contacted the LV about advice on the load and the railroad sent them this placard to attach along with what

Another point that occurs to me is, how old are the cars at the date you're modeling, and are there newer ones that could hold down the dedicated service assignments? By "old", in the case of cars lik

Yay! I'll be venturing out to my LHS tomorrow to pick up the FB-2 units that finally arrived, so maybe I'll reserve a few of these while I'm at it. Ron Merrick

I was in some Santa Fe cabooses in 1969/70 sitting in storage in Wichita, awaiting rebuilding or scrapping, most likely scrapping since the West Wichita shops had just closed. They all had cast iron s

This one's really interesting. The side ladder appears to have collapsed. But what's even more interesting is the, for lack of a better word, 'interim' dome platform, not a full level platform with ra

I saw them yesterday on the original post, but they're not visible now. Ron Merrick

Has anyone ever seen or have one of the Intermountain / former Red Caboose 40' boxcar with 8' door, stock number 38703? The paint scheme is MoPac Route of the Eagles. Judging by the current IM website

Sorry I can't look this up for myself, but I've moved most of my reference material and not myself. There are more than one Proto2000 50' double door box with end doors available on line, in the yello

I tried that on a Microscale decal a few months ago and it did not work out well. This was one of those sets with lots of dimensional data, which are extremely hard to see. I used one of those large S

While we're on the subject of sealing, someone asked about the taping of doors last week. I didn't immediately think of duct tape (duck tape), which was actually a WWII invention, but it turns out sim

This collection was from a Utah photographer, so we can infer the photos were taken somewhere around there. https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-94922271/a-photographic-saga-utah-and-the-shipler-famil

The MP car in the foreground is possibly from the series 84100-84499, built late 20s as part of one of several orders of 40 ton single-sheathed auto cars with 12' doors. By 1950 most were converted to

These are interesting photos. In one, the car is marked Homestead Works, which is a bit east of Utah. (perhaps the library acquired them not as part of a local history project.) And the product in the

Not only that, but this is one of those cars that had brackets for the roofwalk supports like some of the Mather reefers. Ron Merrick