You’ll get historical and up-to-date facts and figures about:
- 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
- And more
This book is a key source for railfans and rail historians, as well as those who want to model the oil industry.