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Standard Oil Company
They operated 6 motors and 3 trailers, all constructed by Standard Oil in their shops. This operation was 42" gauge.

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Union Oil Company of California Paint Information
...Color Index]] / [[Union Oil Company of California Paint Information|Union Oil Company of California]] On the [[Pacific Coast Railway]] tanks operated by the Union Oil Company were painted black with silver ends initially. Repainted to solid b

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Union Oil Company of California Paint Information
...Color Index]] / [[Union Oil Company of California Paint Information|Union Oil Company of California]] On the [[Pacific Coast Railway]] tanks operated by the Union Oil Company were painted black with silver ends initially. Repainted to solid b

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Union Tank Line: Paint Information
Union Tank Line was owned by the Standard Oil Company of New York (SOCONY), so color standards were uniform between the t ...as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.

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Railroads by Commodity
:[[:Category:Oil|Oil]]

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Japan (Paint Additive)
...the different coats applied in painting of either wood or iron, for while oil retards, drying japan promotes it and the antagonism between the liquids wo ...there was nothing like oil; but in this age of rush in the railroad shop, oil is 'not in it.' Our superiors expect us to be abreast of the age and to do

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Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Freight Equipment
===Oil Cars===

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Standard Oil Company
They operated 6 motors and 3 trailers, all constructed by Standard Oil in their shops. This operation was 42" gauge.

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Great Western Railway of Canada Paint Information
GWR oil tank cars were painted brown ochre, with the tank painted white lead. ...4Bf1nwV6fLx4tqZ03rU3/view?usp=sharing 1872 Great Western Railway of Canada oil tank car specifications, Library Archives of Canada]''

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San Pedro Los Angeles & Salt Lake Paint Information
...rd design are painted in two coats of Mineral Red. Interior is finished in oil over raw wood.

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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Paint Information
...h pure linseed oil; the paint itself consisted of pigment, refined linseed oil, and refractory compounds, and was available in "black and colors."

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Canadian Pacific Railway Paint Information
Roof is canvas painted with four coats Metallic brown in oil, the last coat mixed liberally with sand. ...and firebox inside the cab are painted while hot with one coat of linseed oil mixed with a small amount of lampblack.

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Industrial Railroads of California
<span class="rltitle">[[Standard Oil Company|Standard Oil Company.]]</span><br />

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U.S. Gypsum Company
...lt by the Imperial Gypsum Company, owned by the Imperial Valley Gypsum and Oil Corporation. The railroad built from the junction with the San Diego & Ariz

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Locomotive Front End Paints
...paint. In 1932 ''Railway Age'' recommended that railroads salvage journal oil from hotboxed axle bearings for mixing front end paints. *Frost Paint & Oil Company (Kapak): Minneapolis MN. Described as "jet black and glossy."

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U.S. Potash Company
...h deposit was found in 1925 Snowden & McSweeney Co. who were exploring for oil east of Carlsbad and instead found potash salts. They formed the United Sta

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W. W. Prather Lumber Company
1938 – Purchases a used oil burning Heisler from Richardson Lumber, Steward Point. managed to remain in operation through the depression and in 1938, an oil-burning Heisler

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Oxide and Metallic Paints
...d inert pigments with a vehicle containing absolutely pure refined linseed oil, in combination with one of the most refractory materials known to science, ...low specific gravity permits it to remain in perfect suspension in linseed oil."</blockquote>

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Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St Louis (Big Four) Paint Information
...ps://archive.org/details/ClevelandCottageColors/page/n3/mode/2up Cleveland Oil and Paint Mfg. Co. ca.1890]''

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Iron Mountain Railway
...en 1895 and 1899 were delivered as wood-burners but were converted to burn oil in 1901. The line’s rolling stock consisted of 72 ore cars, 22 flat cars ...ned to Keswick for smelting. As the demand for sulfuric acid by California oil refineries was on the rise, it was decided to move the Mountain Copper Comp

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BLW-CN3971-1876
..., boiler jacket, and cab were ripped off the locomotive. Converted to fuel oil after November 1902.

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North Pacific Coast Railroad
:Oil Lamps and Iron Ponies: A Chronicle of the Narrow Gauges by Frederic Shaw, C

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