1962_11 #16.00 r4 f6 Huge Pressure Chamber on Train Flatcar.JPG

Title: 1962_11 #16.00 r4 f6 Huge Pressure Chamber on Train Flatcar.JPG
Creator: Washington Evening Journal
Date: 1962 November
Type: Image
Format: Image/jpg
UI Box and folder: U of Iowa Libraries Special Collections, MsC1179, Box 14
GeoPlace: Washington, IA
Rights: Copyright, Southeast Iowa Union, CC BY-NC
Subject (Fortepan category): Motorized Vehicles
SEIDL Link: https://seiowa.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=34618%2C34580&i=t&by=1962&bdd=1960&bm=12&bd=7&d=12071962-12071962&fn=washington_evening_journal_usa_iowa_washington_19621207_english_1&df=1&dt=12&cid=2721
Contact Sheet: 1962_11 #15.00 Wingas Interior #16.00 Huge Pressure Chamber(27).jpg
SEIDL caption: CALIFORNIA BOUND - The heaviest two-car shipment in American railroad history moved through Washington this week on route to California. It was a 98-foot vessel carried on a double flat car and weighing in at 1,079,200 pounds. The picture here was taken Wednesday when the train stopped on a Washmgton side track while the crew ate lunch. It was the third pressure vessel shipped by the A.O. Smith corporation of Milwaukee, Wisc., through Washington and on to the Tidewater Oil Co. at Avon, Calif. A total of six vessels used in a process which converts petroleum distillates into high quality motor gasoline will be shipped lo the California company. - Journal photo by Bob Elliott

Media: Box 14/1962_11 #16.00 r4 f6 Huge Pressure Chamber on Train Flatcar.jpg