Show Me Your Oil Tankers

@Choo Choo Charlie posted:

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

Charlie

Approximately 45 years ago, I went to Canojoharie (sp?), NY, which had a Life Saver factory. The whole town smelled sweet because of the sugar.

That's  a very nice looking life saver tank car, Charlie. Arnold

Oil Tankers anyone?

Oh Boy, I like tank cars...

Here are some old tin Athearn ho kit tank cars... with one stray Flyer ho Texaco tank tossed in for confusion.

And a bunch of Lionel 2654's

Prewar Alexander O scale kit built tank car.  Cast Aluminum frame wood tank.

Another O scale wood tank with metal frame, this one hand lettered by Bill Lenoir

And a bunch of Walthers pre WWII kit built tank cars in O scale again.

@Van Rail posted:

Oil Tankers anyone?

OMG, awesome, so real looking.

A mixture of Marx, Modern Marx and Sakai tank cars.

Steve

https://youtu.be/Tig8dc20fQA

Tank cars weathered and ready for service.  

The waybill reads: "Caution - Radioactive Waste" - there's definitely no Lifesavers in this car!

Tankers!!!

A few weeks ago, I posted 3 or 4 photos of some tankers I had painted and lettered for the Southern Pacific. Here’s another view of all of them.

I really like the old fashioned black tanker cars. I still remember many times (50 plus years ago) driving along the SP’s Bayshore yards in San Francisco and seeing a line of black, single dome oil tankers. So for the last three or four months I picked up various junker tank cars and fixed them up, painted them, and applied either dry transfer or decal lettering.
This is my repainted and relettered SP SW1 engine pulling  a train of black SP tanker cars with an SP caboose at the end.

Here are a few of my tankers.  The lead Sunoco tanker is by MTH and is all die cast. It weighs more than the rest of the entire train!

Not oil   But Hookers

here's a new one. Working on more.

Ben, what road name is that engine?

@coach joe posted:

Ben, what road name is that engine?

That’s a Monon.  Special run by mister muffin.  I know your surprised it’s not an Erie. Lol.  But monon shared the station with Erie in Chicago so I made an appointment xception

K Line Timken tanks....die cast and heavy!

Some of my tankers…some factory, a couple painted by me…

@Krieglok posted:

Some of my tankers…some factory, a couple painted by me…

That’s quite the collection there, Tom. Nice work. 👍

I have this 1994 TTOS Ford tanker with Dick Kughn’s signature printed on the tank. The box, in the second photo, was autographed by Dick. 🚂😉😺

Thank you Vern! Most of them are for industries in cities where I lived in or near to, in the past fifty years…

Here is one more, from Niagara Falls…

Ben I figured it had to be another members engine.

BN tank by K Line...."diesel fuel only".

Here's 3 (MPC / Fundimension) tankers.

I forgot about the hidden tanker in the LCCA 1979 convention Airco 9733 boxcar.

@Krieglok posted:

Some of my tankers…some factory, a couple painted by me…

How about that one? Is it your custom job? I've never seen it before, and I try to collect all New Jersey company freight cars.

Cool fleet you have.

Thanks, Jim

@CNJ Jim posted:

How about that one? Is it your custom job? I've never seen it before, and I try to collect all New Jersey company freight cars.

Cool fleet you have.

Thank you, Jim!

The Hayden tank car was done by me,  with Tichy Decals, set number 100420.

Hayden Chemical was located in Garfield NJ, on the banks of the Passaic River, where the Erie Dundee branch crossed the River, along Monroe Street.

The company produced Formaldehyde. They were owned by a German interest at the outbreak of WW1. The company was seized and transferred  to American buyers at that time, eventually being owned by American Cyanamide . I am not sure when the plant closed, but it is a field now…destined to be condominiums eventually…

6465s

An early Lionel 804:

Needs a good cleaning.

Here's a few more Arnold - back to front and left to right -

3rd Rail, Ives

Bing, Bing, Bing

New Marx Prototype, Fandor, Hornby (French)

Marx, Bing, and Marx.

While trying to find something for another posting, l discovered an Atlas "Tank Gas Corpoation" tank car l forgot l had, and is probably the reason l built  a Tank Car Gas station that l posted. 

I had to page through, as l thought l'd posted this car and know l did gas station.  This is Tank Gas Corporation car with scratch built Tankar gas station.

MTH PS3 CSX hauling oil tankers along the Hudson.

Another video of the same train:

Arnold - glad you started this up again, as a "tank a holic" I have added a few new ones to my collection since we posted last June.  Here are my additions:

The Menards "Tide" tanker - just purchased from Menards, great price and great car by the way.

The Lionel 26120 KCS "1129" 3 dome from 2000

The Lionel 29629 AEC "Radioactive Material Transport" car from 2009 (still glowing )

Finally the Lionel 6-17899 NASA modern tanker.  This car was the 1992 LCCA convention car.

Well those are my new buys...always hunting by the way " one dome at a time"...

Best wishes

Don

Coupla K-Line tank cars. First, plastic chassis, and plenty of markings:

The next, a die cast chassis and a paucity of markings.

Hey folks, I was searching for something for "Front End Friday" and I happened upon this gal...so here is another Lionel one dome, from 2010 the "LINEX" high octane gasoline car.  Note this one does not appear in my Greenberg pricing guide however I looked in my copy of the 2010 "Ready to Run" catalog and found it.  It was part of the "Lionel Scout" set that was pulled by a 2-4-2 diecast locomotive with headlight, smoke and whistle.  The small black circle has a logo that reads " Lionel Steel Car Foundry" a new one to me.   Cost for the set in 2010 was $109 including 5 cars, fastrack and transformer...not too bad.

Here is the Lionel # 36152 LINEX gasoline one dome tanker

Best Wishes

Don

Don, that is one I have never seen  (I think?). Good post!

Thanks Hokie. Glad you liked her.  
Best wishes Don

Finally got the tank cars lined up. Modern on the outside and not so modern on the inside.

Hokie - great video...I admit I have never managed to get all my tankers lined up and on the tracks.  Many of my Lionel ones are still in boxes, especially those from the MPC era (most of which I never unpacked, just displayed in the box).  It really looks good to run them all.  Thanks for posting.

Don

This video showing an MTH PS1 Jersey Central FM trainmaster hauling oil tankers, makes me think of these lyrics in Paul Simon's hit song, America:

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America.                 All come to look for America.

Arnold

Arnold, we have not been posting to your thread on Oil Tankers since about November.  So I thought I might post something controversial to stir up some interest, even negative interest might work.  This is my candidate for the "Worst and Least Prototypical Tank Car I could find"....Its a flea market find for about 50 cents (likely not worth that much).  I should note that the label reads "Classical New Style"...well I would wonder what the "old" style looked like!  Anyway here she is, sad but real. Note she actually is (at least close to) 0 gauge and she sits here on Lionel 3 rail track.

OK now that I have your attention (HA!)...Arnold i don't know how to start a thread but you do it so often...how about a thread on "Happy Hoppers or Good Gondola's"  might be fun.  Just a thought.

Don