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A little additional comment on my above post. The "Golden Flame" kit is sold with fuel oil tanks as part of the kit. I already have a fuel oil dealer (Walthers "Interstate fuel & oil"), but needed diesel fuel tanks near the diesel service facility, so the tanks didn't go to waste. <br />As mentioned in the post directly above, particularly in smaller farm towns, some farmer's "CO-OP's" went well beyond feed & seed, and also sold lumber, fuel of various types, and even farm implements such as tractors etc. I have seen small towns that consisted of The CO-OP, a couple of taverns, a few houses and a church. The size of the town, and the distance to the next town, would probably determine just how much consolidation of various businesses there would be. The bigger the town, the more separate businesses there would be. If you model the 1940-60 era or earlier, such towns were quite common in rural farm based areas and supported whatever was grown locally, so that a town in an area of dairy farms would be somewhat different than a town in a beef raising or cotton growing region. In a more recent time, many of the smaller towns have either become a shadow of their former self or disappeared due to improvements in highway systems and vehicles, and the loss of rail branch lines. Ron H.
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