35: The Soho brass tank car, lettered with decals from
Funaro & Camerlengo, as a stand-in for the prototype
car shown in Figure 34.
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As late as the 1950s, Associated, though a part of Tidewater
Associated Oil Company since 1926 (see Bibliography for more
on the history), continued to operate its own tank cars under
the reporting mark AOX. (34) shows a prototype photo taken in
1955 of such a car.
I have a couple of models of these cars, one of which is a
Sunset brass “TM8” car. The other is a stand-in, an old Soho
tank car lettered with decals from Funaro & Camerlengo
(F&C). There is also a resin tank car kit from F&C for an
Associated tank car, for those interested in building one.
Upgrading this kit was the topic of an article by Ted Culotta
from his series on Essential Freight Cars (see Bibliography).
My stand-in is shown in (35).
The completed bulk oil depot
Assembling all the component parts shown above, my con-
cluding photos depict the facility as it appears on my layout,
(36 and 37). The two different viewpoints of the photos illus-
trate all the component parts.
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