Black Gold, Texas T

Neat video, thanks for sharing.

  Bill T.

And up from the ground came a bubblin' crude.....

Cool Arnold!

Bob

RSJB18 posted:

And up from the ground came a bubblin' crude.....

Cool Arnold!

Bob

Long live the Beverly Hillbillies!

Produce it, store it and ship it out.

Mine is a bit more colorful...

CBS072 posted:

Produce it, store it and ship it out.

Keith, for ultimate realism, you need to have your basement stink like the oil refineries along the NJ Turnpike.

RSJB18 posted:

And up from the ground came a bubblin' crude.....

Cool Arnold!

Bob

Ans Lionel did the same with their various oil wells!

Train Nut posted:

Mine is a bit more colorful...

I counted 16 oil tanker cars. Nice!

This is how oil is delivered to heat my home:

Notice in the photos below how the oil flows from the tanker cars on the siding through the pipes into the oil burner. Enough oil is delivered this way to heat my whole house for 45 seconds!

Isn't it amazing what we can accomplish with a little imagination and creativity?

Great topic, Arnold!!  Yes we used to live in a house that had an oil burner.  Here we burn natural gas.

That's some neat photographs and videos, folks!  I will post two photos showing my tank car "fleet".  I don't carry Texas Tea though!  I carry Pennsylvania Grade Crude!  Yes, I recall that "wonderful" smell of crude oil from my youngest days.  I worked in Oil City, Pennsylvania once upon a time long ago, when it was the headquarters of Quaker State and PennZoil "Sound your Z"!!  And yes, Wolf's Head in nearby Reno.  I still need to find a Pennzoil car!!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This is how oil is delivered to heat my home:

Notice in the photos below how the oil flows from the tanker cars on the siding through the pipes into the oil burner. Enough oil is delivered this way to heat my whole house for 45 seconds!

Isn't it amazing what we can accomplish with a little imagination and creativity?

If I have a gift, it's that I didn't let enormous obstacles like a small basement playroom, water heater and oil burner stop me when it came to building my train layout.

Arnold, I think yours would qualify for the honorarium that was on the Forum a few years ago called "The Brotherhood of the Crappy Basement Layout".  Please note, the "crappy" refers to the basement and not the layout!  Folks with soil pipes near the layout are a shoo-in!!  

Mark Boyce posted:

Arnold, I think yours would qualify for the honorarium that was on the Forum a few years ago called "The Brotherhood of the Crappy Basement Layout".  Please note, the "crappy" refers to the basement and not the layout!  Folks with soil pipes near the layout are a shoo-in!!  

Mark, I'm honored to have my layout qualify for such honorarium.

Here's one you don't find too many of. At least in this configuration.  

Arnold,

   I love the old Sunoco Silvers and an entire Consist of them looks way cool, going to have to consider doing the same thing!

PCRR/Dave

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

CBS072 posted:

Produce it, store it and ship it out.

Keith, for ultimate realism, you need to have your basement stink like the oil refineries along the NJ Turnpike.

Worked over 30 years in the oil field.  That's not stink !!! THAT"S THE SMELL OF MONEY.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Arnold,

   I love the old Sunoco Silvers and an entire Consist of them looks way cool, going to have to consider doing the same thing!

PCRR/Dave

You can do it, Dave. Used postwar Sunoco silvers with a little rust tend to be inexpensive at train shows. They are good for unit trains with 8 to 10 or more cars and a caboose. Keep the wheels lubricated with 1 drop of oil and they run well.

CBS072 posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

CBS072 posted:

Produce it, store it and ship it out.

Keith, for ultimate realism, you need to have your basement stink like the oil refineries along the NJ Turnpike.

Worked over 30 years in the oil field.  That's not stink !!! THAT"S THE SMELL OF MONEY.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

All the more reason to make your basement smell like mine: I have an oil burner: perfect for oil tanker unit trains!

back about 10 years ago I worked for a family owned propane company and we would get the propane in on tank cars here is one of the rigs we used to pump it out. 

William Rifenbury 010118 posted:

back about 10 years ago I worked for a family owned propane company and we would get the propane in on tank cars here is one of the rigs we used to pump it out. 

William, that would make a very nice accessory in O Scale, especially if it was an operating accessory.

I have one of the silver Sunoco cars too.  It is part of one of my two post war sets.  They do weather naturally very nicely!

CBSO72,

   You bet that is the wonderful sweet smell of Money!   Got to admit however a guy has to be hard core to want his basement layout to smell like oil, so his Sunoco Silvers are more realistic!

PCRR/Dave

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

William Rifenbury 010118 posted:

back about 10 years ago I worked for a family owned propane company and we would get the propane in on tank cars here is one of the rigs we used to pump it out. 

William, that would make a very nice accessory in O Scale, especially if it was an operating accessory.

Yes if it had a man carrying a hose that went out the walk to the car and simulated putting it to the single dome. Those cars where always single dome we got in with propane