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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1976 - 11/17/2018
Album Info:Photos of tank cars of all descriptions. Modelers feel free to use these photos to assist in your modeling efforts.
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Good advice
Title:  Good advice
Description:  This unnamed tank car at Selkirk has some good advice, not just for cleaning the car, but for other aspects of life as well. Protect your tool!!!
Photo Date:  8/11/1985  Upload Date: 10/7/2014 3:26:08 AM
Location:  Selkirk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  631   Comments: 1
Smallest tank
Title:  Smallest tank
Description:  This is the smallest tank car I have ever seen. Was not close enough to see capacity, but has to be under 10000 gallons. Look at it in comparison to the car its coupled to.
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 3:59:48 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  616   Comments: 1
Pay attention!!!
Title:  Pay attention!!!
Description:  This tank car of cyanic acid was being switched at the East Binghamton CP yard-very carefully. This stuff can kill you. In reality, it was an empty, which went back in general freight-but there's probably still enough residue in the car to kill you. The loaded cars came in on a special move.
Photo Date:  4/5/1991  Upload Date: 3/19/2015 2:53:23 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  289   Comments: 1
Rolling oil
Title:  Rolling oil
Description:  A southbound oil train crosses the diamond at Wagoner OK. The train is on the ex MKT, it is crossing the ex MP.
Photo Date:  5/19/2011  Upload Date: 2/13/2015 2:37:32 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  161   Comments: 1
Short tank
Title:  Short tank
Description:  This short tank car was on a southbound UP train at Wagoner on the ex MP
Photo Date:  11/29/2014  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 2:44:57 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  265   Comments: 0
Army tank
Title:  Army tank
Description:  Not the kind you were thinking of. This one is on display at a park in Williams Ariz.
Photo Date:  4/4/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 3:14:20 AM
Location:  Williams, AZ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  242   Comments: 0
Big tank
Title:  Big tank
Description:  This 33000 gallon tank was in the northbound H train. You can cook a lot of burgers and hot dogs with that much LP gas. The TILX reporting mark is Trinity Industries Leasing.
Photo Date:  7/21/2017  Upload Date: 8/14/2017 4:50:20 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  168   Comments: 0
Fries with that??
Title:  Fries with that??
Description:  An ADM car, most likely full of vegetable oil, is in the northbound H train. The UELX reporting mark is owned by Archer Daniels Midland.
Photo Date:  7/21/2017  Upload Date: 8/14/2017 5:00:25 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  164   Comments: 0
Big oil
Title:  Big oil
Description:  An Exxon Mobil tank car on a 110 car train of crude oil passes through Siloam Springs southbound.
Photo Date:  7/21/2017  Upload Date: 8/14/2017 5:16:35 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
Lye-ong eyes
Title:  Lye-ong eyes
Description:  This tank car on a southbound UP train has sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye. There was a time when this was a primary ingredient in soap. FPAX is a commonly seen reporting mark, belonging to Formosa Plastics.
Photo Date:  9/2/2017  Upload Date: 9/7/2017 4:50:23 AM
Location:  Mazie, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
New tanks
Title:  New tanks
Description:  This new tank car from General American Tank was heading south on what might be its first revenue trip on the ex MKT.
Photo Date:  9/2/2017  Upload Date: 9/7/2017 5:02:32 AM
Location:  Mazie, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  176   Comments: 0
How noble
Title:  How noble
Description:  This odd looking tank owned by Aire Liquide is carrying a liquefied form of the noble gas argon.
Photo Date:  9/2/2017  Upload Date: 9/7/2017 5:06:41 AM
Location:  Mazie, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  231   Comments: 0
Mesmerizing
Title:  Mesmerizing
Description:  Theres something hypnotic about a unit train of identical cars, especially when seen in a telephoto view. Were getting hypnotized by a southbound oil train on the KCS at Gentry Ark, as 110 oil cans roll under the bridge.
Photo Date:  1/12/2018  Upload Date: 1/18/2018 3:12:49 PM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
For a cleaner world
Title:  For a cleaner world
Description:  Its interesting to see the promotional wording, such as it is, on freight cars. Billboard cars are for the most part long gone, but some owners still get a short word in, such as on this Transportation Equipment, Inc, tank going south on the ex MKT.
Photo Date:  1/31/2018  Upload Date: 2/5/2018 5:31:05 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  185   Comments: 0
Basic black
Title:  Basic black
Description:  A GATX car in black, as many of them are. This one is loaded with molten sulfur, seen on CSX.
Photo Date:  9/16/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 4:46:30 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  186   Comments: 1
Overhead view
Title:  Overhead view
Description:  A southbound on the Lineville Sub arrives at Manchester. I was on the GA 41 overpass, affording me this down on shot of a GATX car.
Photo Date:  9/16/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 4:47:53 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  229   Comments: 1
Plain vanilla
Title:  Plain vanilla
Description:  There are a lot of tank cars in lease fleets. About as basic as you get is General American Tank, such as here on CSX. Some of the commodities are interesting. There are a lot of products that are ingredients in finished products, or used to process the materials. Pay attention to those placards!! This one shows corrosive. Don't want to get that stuff on you.
Photo Date:  9/16/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 4:42:47 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  204   Comments: 1
Chemours
Title:  Chemours
Description:  A Chemours tank is northbound on CSX, passing Dalton. Chemours is a spin off of Dupont Chemical. Don't breathe too deep!!
Photo Date:  9/17/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 4:36:18 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  210   Comments: 2
Tate & Lyle
Title:  Tate & Lyle
Description:  This STSX car belongs to Tate & Lyle ingredients, in this case, corn syrup. Its headed south on CSX.
Photo Date:  9/17/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 5:10:04 AM
Location:  Dalton, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  186   Comments: 1
The Andersons
Title:  The Andersons
Description:  This TAEX car is southbound on NS. It belongs to the Andersons
Photo Date:  9/17/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 5:26:25 AM
Location:  Dalton, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  203   Comments: 1
Phosphates
Title:  Phosphates
Description:  This WAGX car is assigned to PCS Phosphate Co, part of Occidental Chemical. Its southbound on NS with a load of phosphoric acid.
Photo Date:  9/17/2018  Upload Date: 11/17/2018 5:32:06 AM
Location:  Dalton, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  209   Comments: 1
Rolling on
Title:  Rolling on
Description:  The view of a northbound empty oil train as it pulls from the siding after a meet at CP North Siloam. The uniformity of unit trains always makes for an interesting view.
Photo Date:  11/30/2018  Upload Date: 12/27/2018 5:11:10 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  164   Comments: 1
Archer Daniels Midland
Title:  Archer Daniels Midland
Description:  ADM had several cars on this train, which Im thinking was ethanol(have to check my Emergency Response Guide to see what US 1987 is), since they dont do oil that Im aware of. It was one of 106 cars in this southbound on the ex MP.
Photo Date:  2/14/2019  Upload Date: 2/22/2019 4:31:50 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  149   Comments: 1
Its not yogurt
Title:  Its not yogurt
Description:  The initials on this car might lead one to think its full of yogurt, but it's TCBX, not TCBY, so actually it belongs to AIG Rail Services-not very tasty!! The train appears to be loaded with ethanol, so not likely to be very tasty. Southbound on the ex MP.
Photo Date:  2/14/2019  Upload Date: 2/22/2019 4:41:14 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  153   Comments: 1
Oil tank
Title:  Oil tank
Description:  This tank was northbound on a unit train returning from Texas. The car belongs to CIT Group
Photo Date:  12/14/2020  Upload Date: 12/22/2020 5:43:37 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  82   Comments: 1
Empty oil
Title:  Empty oil
Description:  A northbound empty oil tank rolls north. Car is owned by CIT Group.
Photo Date:  12/14/2020  Upload Date: 12/22/2020 5:48:34 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  90   Comments: 1
Procor
Title:  Procor
Description:  This Procor car was southbound on a UP mixed freight on the ex MKT.
Photo Date:  3/28/2021  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 5:22:24 AM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  73   Comments: 1
Ethanol empty
Title:  Ethanol empty
Description:  This car, belonging to American Railcar Leasing, was northbound on the UP, taking the connection from the MKT to the MP as it headed back north for more alcohol. Note the car is placarded. Not sure what the placarding rules are for railroads; it seems odd that an empty car would need one, though at one time, there was a placard for "residue" when a car was empty.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 4/15/2021 4:53:29 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  89   Comments: 1
Ethanol empty
Title:  Ethanol empty
Description:  This car was on the same northbound train as the SHPX car, and is owned by American Railcar Industries.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 4/15/2021 5:02:20 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  93   Comments: 1
Procor tank
Title:  Procor tank
Description:  This short tank was southbound on the M train at Siloam
Photo Date:  4/30/2021  Upload Date: 5/2/2021 5:38:33 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  90   Comments: 1
TILX tank
Title:  TILX tank
Description:  This TILX(Trinity Industries Leasing) car was southbound on the M train.
Photo Date:  4/30/2021  Upload Date: 5/2/2021 5:52:59 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  71   Comments: 1
Multi compartments
Title:  Multi compartments
Description:  This four compartment car was on a southbound M train at Watts. The EUSX reporting mark belongs to Exxon Mobil.
Photo Date:  8/15/2021  Upload Date: 8/18/2021 5:52:57 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  117   Comments: 2
Research tank
Title:  Research tank
Description:  This car was northbound on the Q train. Its reporting marks, RCRX, belong to the Reagent Chemical and Research. They market and distribute hydrochloric acid, and caustic soda, among other things. Interestingly, they also make sporting clays.
Photo Date:  9/22/2021  Upload Date: 9/26/2021 4:21:48 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  70   Comments: 1
CIT Group
Title:  CIT Group
Description:  Most tank cars are leased from a variety of owners. This one belongs to the CIT Group, a financial organization. It was northbound on an empty oil train returning to Canada.
Photo Date:  10/11/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 4:02:26 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  57   Comments: 1
CBTX car
Title:  CBTX car
Description:  Another of the 100 CIT Group cars on the northbound empty oil train
Photo Date:  10/11/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 4:04:21 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  53   Comments: 1
Not too bad
Title:  Not too bad
Description:  Given how seriously marked up some cars are these days, seeing one with only minimal graffiti is something of a novelty. This CIT Group car is northbound on an empty oil train.
Photo Date:  10/11/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 4:10:24 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  75   Comments: 1
Clean!!
Title:  Clean!!
Description:  CIT Group car has no graffiti. Amazing!! Northbound empty iunit train at Gentry
Photo Date:  10/11/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 4:12:43 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  50   Comments: 1
Apex Refining car
Title:  Apex Refining car
Description:  This AREX car belongs to Apex Refining, a diversified oil transportation and storage company based in St Louis. This car was southbound on the Q train.
Photo Date:  10/16/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 4:23:44 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  68   Comments: 2
Whose car??
Title:  Whose car??
Description:  The reporting mark CLIX shows as belonging either to Choctaw Leasing, not out of the question for the area, as the Choctaw Nation has a large area in southeastern Oklahoma; or Calumet Lubricants, a natural organization to own a tank. Either way, this one was southbound on an M train at Stilwell.
Photo Date:  1/23/2022  Upload Date: 1/27/2022 4:54:52 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  78   Comments: 1
Union Tank Car
Title:  Union Tank Car
Description:  A Union Tank Car lease fleet car is southbound on this M train at Stilwell.
Photo Date:  1/23/2022  Upload Date: 1/27/2022 5:04:54 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  82   Comments: 1
Vegetable oil
Title:  Vegetable oil
Description:  This Archer Daniels Midland tank was southbound on the Q train at Gentry Ark. They are common on these trains, as local customer McKee Foods gets several every day for use in making Little Debbie snacks.
Photo Date:  3/20/2022  Upload Date: 3/24/2022 4:51:44 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  68   Comments: 1
Class car
Title:  Class car
Description:  The class unit, as it were, of a group of tanks owned by Union Tank Car. The build date on them is December 2021, so almost new.
Photo Date:  3/20/2022  Upload Date: 3/24/2022 4:54:24 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  68   Comments: 1
Euro Leaser
Title:  Euro Leaser
Description:  This cr belongs to VTG Rail, a subsidiary of a European car leasing company. It now has 5200 cars in its US fleet, including this one, seen on a southbound Q train at Watts.
Photo Date:  3/20/2022  Upload Date: 3/24/2022 4:59:57 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  70   Comments: 1
Goodyear car
Title:  Goodyear car
Description:  This tanks reporting marks indicate its owned by Goodyear Tire and Rubber, seen on the KCS on a southbound Q train
Photo Date:  4/14/2022  Upload Date: 4/23/2022 4:36:47 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  54   Comments: 1
Whose car??
Title:  Whose car??
Description:  The reporting marks, NSXX, are not listed in the PWRR site, yet here it is, southbound in a KCS Q train
Photo Date:  4/14/2022  Upload Date: 4/23/2022 4:39:00 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  46   Comments: 1
No, its not yogurt
Title:  No, its not yogurt
Description:  Though I suppose it could be. The TCBX reporting mark is not for The Countrys Best Yogurt, but actually belongs to SMBC Rail Services, a car leasing operation based in Chicago. It is owned by holding company Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Seen on a southbound KCS Q train.
Photo Date:  4/14/2022  Upload Date: 4/23/2022 4:45:30 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  50   Comments: 1
VMSX car
Title:  VMSX car
Description:  This car with infamiliar reporting marks was southbound on the Q train at Dorsey
Photo Date:  11/1/2022  Upload Date: 11/9/2022 5:28:25 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  28   Comments: 1
Billboard of a sort
Title:  Billboard of a sort
Description:  Back in the day, it was not unusual for rolling stock to bear the name of its owner, and there was a wide variety of designs. Nowadays, its a rare occasion to find a car with a company name prominently displayed. This Bunge tank was in the dodger at Siloam Springs as it worked the Pipelife plant there.
Photo Date:  5/26/2023  Upload Date: 5/27/2023 6:17:46 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  36   Comments: 2
Venting
Title:  Venting
Description:  This car of argon was in the northbound H train, some of the gas venting-note the small plume of steam at the top center of the car-due to the almost 90 degree temperatures and high humidity. The BOCX reporting marks are for Linde Corp, formerly BOC Gases.
Photo Date:  6/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/6/2023 6:31:50 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  41   Comments: 1
White tank
Title:  White tank
Description:  This Exxon Mobil car, still bearing its Mobil Oil reporting marks, rolls north on an H train.
Photo Date:  6/4/2023  Upload Date: 6/6/2023 6:40:26 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  31   Comments: 1


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