What if your layout served a refinery or a bulk oil dealer?
Oil and the railroads grew up together: from crude to refined products, tank cars have been feeding refineries and dealers for more than a century. In Modeling the Oil Industry, Jeff Wilson brings together the history and the up-to-date facts and figures you need to add this industry to your layout — a key source for railfans, rail historians and modelers.
Features
- The history of the oil industry and its relationship with the railroads
- How oil is extracted, refined and moved to market
- How local petroleum dealers ("jobbers") operate
- The evolution of tank cars used to move oil, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other products
- By Jeff Wilson
- Softcover, 112 pages
- In English
- Published by Kalmbach
What if your layout served a refinery or a bulk oil dealer?
Oil and the railroads grew up together: from crude to refined products, tank cars have been feeding refineries and dealers for more than a century. In Modeling the Oil Industry, Jeff Wilson brings together the history and the up-to-date facts and figures you need to add this industry to your layout — a key source for railfans, rail historians and modelers.
Features
- The history of the oil industry and its relationship with the railroads
- How oil is extracted, refined and moved to market
- How local petroleum dealers ("jobbers") operate
- The evolution of tank cars used to move oil, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other products
- By Jeff Wilson
- Softcover, 112 pages
- In English
- Published by Kalmbach