Show Me Your Oil Tankers

My son David keeps a close eye on a passing oil train...

A few Dorfan Std Gauge Tank Cars.

Steve

https://youtu.be/QF1Z-KgQxw0

My Napa Valley Wine Train tank car (that I run with my Wine Train consist) and my Marx 3/16 scale NIACET tank car.

Postwar Sunoco tankers, my favorites, headed by an MTH PS3 Great Northen:

A few years ago, my wife and I went to West Point to see my granddaughter perform as a cheerleader in a Pop Warner football game.

During the game I felt the ground tremble, and then heard the roar, and saw the awesome and beautiful sight, of a CSX diesel hauling a long oil tanker car train along the Hudson River.

It was an unforgettable experience.

I kinda recreate that experience when I run my MTH Proto 3 CSX smoking diesel pulling oil tankers on my layout:

The sounds, smoke and pulling power of this MTH diesel are outstanding.

Maybe someday they will figure out how to have the model locomotive make the ground tremble like the real thing. Now that would really be awesome. LOL, Arnold

The Pillsbury Doughboy rolls under the signal bridge...

@CBS072 posted:

You don't shot a hole in the ground and it bubbles up.

It did on the Beverly Hillbillies: "...and up from the ground came a bubblin' crude; oil that is..."

I have a fascination for Hookers and Shays:

A few junky prewar ones

I'm afraid this Hooker has seen better days ....

Here are a couple of mine, just for fun on a Friday!

Here is a Lionel car, starting out in the "Winner Line" in 1932 but eventually being cataloged as "0-27" by the time this fellow was made in 1936.

Here is a Mettoy tanker from the UK in the 1950's

Finally, illustrating Hornby's last gasp at tinplated 0 gauge in 1957 the "Type 50" freight wagon.  This one a Shell tanker.

Have a great weekend

Don

This was my first freight car years ago

Similar to Arnold's story of the CSX at west Point,  Montana Rail Link was everywhere during the time I spent in the Bozeman area (especially Livingstone). Can't swear I ever saw a real one of these but maybe...?

PS- @Sarah, that UP car looks like it had a tough life.

....

The United States Airforce logistics team has arranged for the transfer of this highly toxic extra terrestrial waste. It's headed for interchange with Arnold's railroad.

We've got to get our oil tankers rolling ASAP so we can get the price of gasoline down. It's your patriotic duty to do this. LOL.

Take some photos and/or videos of your oil tankers and post them here.

I will post a video of mine a little later. Arnold

I've got the New York City Metropolotan Area covered:

LOL, Arnold

Here are some shots of a few of my tankers being pulled into town this morning.  

With a smaller layout, I have only two.

I slapped some postwar trucks on a MTH Sinclair tank car.  I think it fits in nicely with other Lionel postwar tank cars.

The incredibly rare Cities Service 804...in brass:

More common in nickel

Here are a few of my most recent acquisitions, tried not to repeat any I have posted before.  Great thread Arnold.

Hornby Hatchette (reproduction of French Hornby mostly M series pre-war)_ 2002-2004

Lionel White Pass and Yukon

Lionel pre-war silver #815 from 1931 unloading to the local delivery truck.

Lionel (LTI) from 1995.

The Girard Model Works, Joy Line,  #355 "Everful" tank from 1932-34.

A MTH "Plasticville Petroleum Products" 3 Dome

Best wishes everyone !

Don

@jay jay posted:

My Napa Valley Wine Train tank car (that I run with my Wine Train consist) and my Marx 3/16 scale NIACET tank car.

You mean that the Napa Valley Wine Train has a whole tank car full of wine? Wow! 😂

My prewar Hornby Shell Motor Spirit tank car.

Hopefully, these oil tankers will get the price of gasoline down throughout the Hudson Valley and the Albany, NY area:

LOL, Arnold

Here are a couple of STD Gauge I made for last years TCA convention display. They are custom McCoy tank cars.

Steve

The last of the Lionel 2680-series of prewar O-27 tank cars:

Blackened journals, wheels, and domes, without handrails, likely included in the last sets sold in 1941/1942 as everything flipped over to war production.

PD

Better than oil.

Sunset brass.

Thanks to Arnold for reinvigorating this thread. Fun to see the really old prewar items.  Here is a group of Industrial Rail tank cars, great values when you can find them. 

Modern unit oil train and other action.

Video was taken in early 2021, best I could find until I shoot something new. Enjoy

@PRRMP54 posted:

Speaking of tankers, did anyone successfully assemble a Walthers beer can tanker? I had bought one and got a beer can from a friend but never put the parts together. These were offered when beer cans were steel, but the problem (to me anyway) was the end with the ring pull; there just was no way to hide it. I probably should have looked for a much older can that needed a can opener to open it. Instead of using that, punch two very small holes in the side, one near the top end and one at the bottom end to drain out the beer. Then use that side as the bottom.

I think that finding that kind of can today would be impossible, at least at a reasonable price as one would be a genuine collectors item.

I have one and found an appropriate steel beer can (non pull-tab) for it. IF you have a pull-tab type, the top of the can may not fit since those tops were aluminum and had different contours. I found mine on eBay. The end caps seemed to fit well enough to build the kit, which I will hopefully have time for now that I'm retired. I also bought the MTH-by-Atlas beer tank car set to go with it after I 2-rail them.

Haven't added too many new tankers since my post here last year .. but I did snaffle a couple !

Ives set with tanker Full of ... "Patina"

( yes I know the tender is backward lol )

A French JEP Vin barrel wagon ( diecast)

And the only bit of ( Gasp) Plastic ( shudder! ) in the collection ...

Only because it makes the set with this beautiful locomotive and power unit ....

US Hornby

And I am having a mental blank on this one lol ( Am Flyer 3210 ? with custom paint?)

Long Island and Bethlehem Steel oil tankers:

OK, rail men and women, we got to get more oil tankers rolling down the line to get those gasoline prices down!

I'm covering the East Coast:

Now, who is willing to cover the Mid-West and West Coast?

LOL, Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

OK, rail men and women, we got to get more oil tankers rolling down the line to get those gasoline prices down!

I'm covering the East Coast:

I think you need bigger tankers, that whole train won't fill my tank!

One of mine ....

Here are some pictures of my oil facility and some tankers.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Long Island and Bethlehem Steel oil tankers:

I have two of those, both done up for New York City Transit, one with a grey tank and one with an oxide red tank.

Here is my homemade Life Savers Tank car.  Plastic colored tape and a wrapper from a roll of Life Savers, that I got to enjoy made this car possible.  This is one sweet tank car. 

Charlie