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John West

April 08, 2001 11:43PM

My guess is they were handling bulk petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, lube oil, etc.) to various oil company bulk plants. This was a pretty normal method of distribution from refinery to local distributor in those days. I seem to remember pix of Conoco multi-domed cars, which indicates they had several seperate compartments for handling several commodities at the same time. However, many of these commodities could have used cars very much like the crude oil cars. This reflects educated guesses, and perhaps someone has some more factual information.

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Tank Cars in Durango	Jim Hamblin	April 08, 2001 08:16PM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	John West	April 08, 2001 11:43PM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	Chile John	April 09, 2001 08:01AM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	Gary Nichols	April 09, 2001 10:55AM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango PIC	Sam March	April 09, 2001 10:09AM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	Earl Knoob	April 09, 2001 10:46AM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	Gary Waite	April 09, 2001 04:17PM
Then you must have seen this picture. PIC	Sam March	April 09, 2001 05:27PM
Re: Then you must have seen this picture.	John West	April 09, 2001 06:09PM
Ok, I read Sloan, whew!	Sam March	April 09, 2001 08:40PM
Oh, and what are the two Gramps cars?	Sam March	April 09, 2001 09:18PM
oil product distribution	Brian Norden	April 09, 2001 09:50PM
Re: oil product distribution	dave grandt	April 10, 2001 04:37PM
Thanks!	Sam March	April 10, 2001 11:08PM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	John McCutcheon	April 09, 2001 06:52PM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	PRR	April 09, 2001 09:51PM
Re: Tank Cars in Durango	Earl	April 10, 2001 07:40AM

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