Coffin Tank Car

The coffin tank car is a freight car used to transport crude oil and is named for the fact that its tank resembles a coffin. It was added in The Coal & Power Update.
This car was built for the Nevada California Oregon Railway, first used to carry oil with an attached pump to remove it from the car. Later in its life, it was converted into a water car, to transport water to water towers along the line that were not connected to wells. The car was sent to the West Side Lumber Company, where it served there until the railroad’s closure. The car is preserved today at the “Sumpter Valley Railway”, used as an auxiliary tender for their two-truck Heisler.
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* This car is most likely based on the West Side Lumber Company Tank Car #5. It started out as a Nevada-California-Oregon narrow gauge railroad 3100 gallon tank car and was first used by the N-C-O to to supply their steam engines with oil. When the N-C-O switched to standard gauge, it came into the possession of the West Side Lumber Company and was used to haul oil into the woods for the logging engines. After being rebuilt twice, first in the 1950s and again from 2007-2014, it is now used as an auxiliary tender by the Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration. https://westernrailwaypreservation.org/west-side-lumber-company-tank-car-5/
Category:Freight Cars
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