History and illustrations here
http://aoghs.org/this-week-in-petroleum-history/
And here’s a link to an inspiring model refinery contest from wayback…
http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/717/48261/april-1948-page-35
(http://d1ke3s7oc9e1xt.cloudfront.net/public/magazine_page/da/33/05/529ac_9e50.jpg)?c=fc8c
page 20 of that mag…see anything interesting in the upper left hand photo?
… That it’s outdors, you mean?.. yup, in Costa Rica.
These old mags are fun to look through; I’ve found a couple of old projects that would be interesting to do in LS, some neat illustrations, too. This particular mag was published by Lionel, and they did a bang-up job of it too, in my humble opinion…