Almost on the Right Track: The Densmore Tank Car

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Almost on the Right Track: The Densmore Tank Car The successful drilling for petroleum in northwestern Pennsyl­vania exploded a speculative excitement on a national level not seen since the California Gold Rush a decade earlier. “Colonel” Edwin L. Drake’s modest well at Titusville stirred an oil fever that attracted shrewd fortune seekers, sharp traders and adventurers from all areas of the country. They began to assemble not...
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