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Densmore wooden oil tanks on a railroad flat car, Drake Well Museum, Titusville, PA.
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Oil tank cars on the railroad

Credit: Drake Well Museum

In 1865 brothers Amos and James Densmore designed and fabricated the first successful tank cars used in the Pennsylvania oil fields. A major breakthrough in the bulk transportation of oil, Densmore tank cars were soon built by the thousands.

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