“The Oil Cans” was a tanker train that carried oil from Shell Oil Company’s Belridge field over the Tehachapi Mountains and across the LA Basin to its refinery at Carson near Long Beach. An interesting and informative article about this train can be found at
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The museum store has a two volume DVD/BluRay set that includes 11 Extreme Trains videos:
More about the tank cars (Athearn’s website)