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By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-related products was sharply increasing thanks to the combination of war-related demands as well as demands from home. In order to move oil and “new” consumer products, tank car producers introduced new car designs. In 1917 General American Tank Car introduced a new general service 8,000 gallon non-insulated tank car (a prototype for which we released a model in November 2016 with a few still in stock), and quickly followed that production with an insulated 8,000 gallon tank car, which utilized a “jacket” that surrounded the tank and dome. Built in East Chicago, IN, these insulated cars were easily identifiable by their circumferential rivets that surrounded the tank body, with notably different heights between the courses, and with their “recessed ends”. These “radial course” tank cars utilized steel bolster plates that rise up vertically to hold the tank in place, complete with a “web” section behind to minimize steel consumption. At a time of fairly monochromatic box cars plying the rails, these insulated tank cars carried consumable products, and they were typically stenciled for lessees advertising consumer products such as gasoline, wine, and corn products.
WRNX “Warren Tulsa OK” 1950+ with beautiful “WARREN” graphics on the side of the light gray carbody, plus mention of “TULSA OKLA” as the home town for the cars. Warren Petroleum was a producer and distributor of LPG and gasoline, and these cars were “gasoline fleet” tanks. This car is accurately stenciled for the 1950 photo that shows on our website, which is based upon the small brake stencil and tank psi test lettering. The car’s other lettering shows a 1920 car build date. The expansion dome is painted green like the prototype, and includes the distinctive “W” Warren logo. These cars are complete with an era-appropriate AB-brake system.
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