How come nobody models more tank car trains from the 40's and 50's?

Seeing Big Jim's great tanker train photo reminds me of the period during early-mid WWII when German U-Boats literally shut down shipping of oil along the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern Seaboard. Tanker trains were critical for supplying  the northeastern and upper midwest defense factorys. I recall reading of the Alabama and Great Southern Engineers as well as Southerns Eastern Lines Engineers struggling with surging tanker consists during the early runs up from the Gulf states oil patch. Operating experience and soon to be better tank baffling corrected the problem. President Roosevelt presented "Efficiency" awards/ "E" flags to many railroads for the effort . 

Hot Water posted:

For me, the price of the beautiful 8000 gallon tank cars offered by Atlas, have simply become WAY TOO EXPENSIVE for me to model a 30 or more car, late 1940s, tank train! Plus, I never could get anybody at Atlas to offer 6 or 12 car sets of UTLX and/or GATX 8000 gallon tank cars. They seem to be caught-up constantly producing all those private road name tank cars, yet they totally ignore the two largest tank car owners from the 1940s & 1950s, i.e. GATX and UTLX.

Thus, I finally gave up.

I agree with this sentiment.  I would also run a long tank train if I could find representative late 40's stock at a reasonable price. Atlas O Tank cars are beautiful and I've purchased all 2 or 4 car numbers of other freight I found something I wanted.  Pricey but easier than tracking them all down later.

It seems MTH used to have more 6-car sets available in the past. This might be an opportunity for them.  They seemed to be a reasonable way to get a large/long freight train.  Maybe they were too boring for those who want candy stripes of all different colors and didn't sell.

Petroleum or even fish oil ☺.......

Along with fish oil, something most would not think of, another one is wine.  Yep, vino via the rails, in tank cars, usually of 10K capacity.  Have known of this at more than one distributor who receives the wine in this manner, then bottles it under license from the name on the label, whichever one it may be.  I know, information most connoisseurs do not wish to know, but is a fact.  Imagine how much it would save on buying by the box if you had a siding and your own tank car full....... LOL!!!   And, wine is not the only beverage shipped by rail... in a tank car.

Jesse   TCA

There are so many scale tanks out there I can't list them all.

Here are a few. 

I like these more for size and time frame. The spencer is atlas the nyc is mth diecast. Oddly the atlas are usually more expensive.

These are nice from mth but I usually seel them off.

For modeling former oil companies, now defunct, to have a "period" theme tank car, I plan on modeling some MARLAND OIL tank cars.  This was a firm established by EW Marland in Ponca City, Oklahoma around 1914 and lasted until 1920s when it was absorbed by Continental Oil.  The CONOCO emblem is taken from the MARLAND OIL logo, and it from YMCA (with permission).  EW Marland was a great supporter of the YMCA with large donations, along with providing health care, housing, job training, and many other benefits for all employees.  Although this may seem too early for many, I have seen early type tank cars, all riveted, no welds, used in Rohm and Haas and other company plants for transfer of product(s) within the plant, not common and non-transferable within the pipe supply lines.

Jesse   TCA  12-68275 

Jesse,

Here is a picture for you. I am waiting on Atlas to do Marland, Conoco and Phillips. Mid Continent - DX would be nice. The Marland is a picture of a mural in I think Ponca City Oklahoma. I found it on the internet.