2: A Standard Oil of California bulk oil dealer in
Waterford, California (east of Modesto). Here there are
two vertical tanks, with two horizontal tanks between
them, all painted silver. Barely visible behind the right-
hand tank is a truck loading platform, and in the dis-
tance is the warehouse. This 1973 photo was included
in the April 1996
Railmodel Journal
article listed in the
Bibliography. – Robert Schleicher photo.
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this photo illustrates, the one place such cars did go was to
local oil dealers.
Another interesting example of a bulk oil plant is a Standard
Oil of California facility in Waterford, California, about 12 miles
east of Modesto. This plant had two large vertical tanks of dif-
ferent heights, and a pair of large horizontal tanks. It is shown
in (2). The tanks of different sizes, combining vertical and hori-
zontal, were common at these facilities, likely reflecting con-
struction at different times.
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