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Conoco Road Numbers CONX 190
This ACF three dome tank car is painted black with red and white logo and white lettering. It was built in September 1937 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Conoco began in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Co., one of the first petroleum marketers in the West. By 1972, Conoco had diversified into coal, chemicals, plastics, fertilizers and minerals as well as expanding its operations overseas. On Sept. 30, 1981, Conoco became a wholly owned DuPont subsidiary. In November 2002, Conoco merged with Phillips Co. creating the sixth-largest publicly traded oil company in the world and the third-largest in the United States.
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