I'm not sure just when my dad started using a tractor on a regular basis, but he and one or two others used to buy a rail car of gasoline at a time in order to save money. I tend to recall him telling of buying it for 1½¢ or 2¢ per gallon. They only had a couple of days to empty the car before it was returned.
Among old documents I discovered that he and his sister had obtained a siding permit from the railroad. I don't know if that meant they could use an existing siding or just what it meant. Her husband was a railroad depot agent and probably helped to obtain the permit.
I do remember that my dad's first tractor was a Fordson.
On a slightly different note--I have a 1920s or 1930s account book for a service station. Many of the entries for sales were labeled "tourist" instead of cash sale.
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