Procor is a Canadian company producing railway shipping cars. It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet, with more than 30,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars .
7-646: Linked to Sparling Tank Car of Toronto, Procor was founded in 1952 as Products Tank Line Limited and became an affiliate of US-based Union Tank Car Company . The company, which shortened its name to Procor in 1962, is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario . Procor manufactured cars in its Oakville shops until 2002, but now sources from parent Union Tank Car's plant in Alexandria, Louisiana and Sheldon, Texas . List of cars once manufactured by Procor: Procor operates from numerous locations across Canada. This article about
14-402: A Canadian corporation or company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Union Tank Car Company Union Tank Car Company or UTLX is a railway equipment leasing , rail car maintenance, and rail car manufacturing company headquartered in metro Chicago , Illinois . A direct descendant of Standard Oil , the firm today is owned by Berkshire Hathaway . The company
21-510: The 1920s, the company had a fleet of about 30,000 cars, and moved its operations to Chicago . In 1952, Union Tank established its Canadian subsidiary, Procor . The Union Tank's largest tank ever manufactured was the "Whale Belly", with a capacity for 50,000 gallons. It was introduced in 1963 and served for more 20 years. TransUnion was formed as a holding company in 1968 to hold Union Tank Car Company. TransUnion soon began acquiring credit information and information management companies as
28-523: The company that later became Standard Oil. Rockefeller, once Vandergrift's nemesis, made him Vice President of Standard Oil. The town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania , built in 1895 by steel company president George G. McMurtry to house his workers, was named in Vandergrift's honor. Vandergrift is regarded as a leader of transforming the shipment of oil. The first generation of wooden tank cars were introduced to transport petroleum products in 1865, serving
35-460: The oil fields of Pennsylvania. Four years later, the wooden tanks were replaced by cast iron ones. In 1873, Standard Oil acquired the Star Tank Line entire fleet for its exclusive use, in an attempt to control petroleum transportation. The Union Tank Car Company was incorporated in 1891 as a subsidiary of Standard Oil Trust as part of an initiative from Rockefeller. After Standard Oil Trust
42-527: Was dissolved by the Government and split into 34 different companies , Union Tank became a public company and began to serve other oil companies, diversifying its clients range. Union Tank changed its name to "Union Tank Car Company" in 1919. During the Great Depression , the company acquired thousand of tank cars and began leasing them back to shippers, an activity that has continued to date. During
49-507: Was founded in 1866 as the "Star Tank Line" by Captain Jacob J. Vandergrift (1827ā1899), in response to the economic activities of John D. Rockefeller in the years leading up to his creation of Standard Oil . Vandergrift was involved in the conflicts in the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania in the 1860sā1870s. Eventually, Union Tank Car Company and Vandergrift's other holdings, which included pipeline and riverboat transport companies, merged with
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