Rich Christie wrote: Actually, the modeling description was an article in Railroad Model Craftsman, published back in July 2011. I don't have a scan of the article, but do have a PDF of what I

That's pretty much what I was thinking. B&W photos might be scarce since with some film black-on-red = black. FWIW, Socony-Vacuum (another baby Standard - Standard Oil Company of New York) had some

1948 is still in the post war optimism era. Could it have been a one off for display purposes. It wouldn’t be the first time that error was made. A certain heavily over-represented obscure tank car

Without looking at the parts, I think the worst case might be having to lengthen the Tangent underframe. That would take two underframes. But the left-over ends could be used for a 4,000 gallon tank!

Richard Townsend wrote: Photograph would be nice, of course. But AFAIK all the early Champ stuff is totally prototype based, even if some lettering is a little crude. I am not aware of any Champ

Andy, I know Tony Thompson did some cross-bashing with Intermountain and Athearn tankers. I believe he has that info in his blog. Rich Christie

Schuyler (et. Al.) A photo of my EBAX car is still on line at: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/modeling/models/millera/ebax3064main.html Regards, Andy Miller

I don't believe that Tangent has made a 10000 gallon GATC tank car (yet). Years ago, I discovered that the ACF Type 27 10000 gallon tank was nearly identical in dimensions as the GATC built similar

Photos: PFE 36624 (R-40-2) Undated photos from the Library of Congress, probably from the early

After a couple quick searches I did find a few Conoco tank cars on Colorado narrow gauge lines but none seemed to have red lettering. Silver tank cars had green lettering and black tank cars had white

This talk of vintage California gasoline producers brought up the mention of Tidewater/Associated. Associated was a large brand in California going by "Flying A", not be confused with the Pegasus of

On tank cars, I think "EC" always means East Chicago (IN). GA built cars there, and Sinclair serviced theirs at the refinery. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

Taking one more step into the weeds, for years into the 1930’s the head of Atlantic Refining was headed by John W. Van Dyke, the same guy who lent his name to the UTLX steel tank car designs from

First off, if this is the wrong list for this please let me know and any suggestions for another list woU\Uld be appreciated. I am seeking advice on the removal of the paint/ink that Tangent Scale

Good thought. It doesn't say one way or the other, but I'm almost certain it's for a standard gauge car. It is for a 10,000 gallon tank, with a reweigh station of "E.C." where ever that is. And just

Is the red decal for a narrow gauge prototype? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

This intrigues me. I checked my stash of Champ decals and the diagram, copyright 1948, calls out a "bright red" tank. I've dug through all the sources I can think of and have found no sign of a red

Ken Adams wrote: Shell had their own tank car fleet, both SCMX and SCCX (the latter for Shell Chemical, shipping such things as alcohols). Tidewater Associated (the correct company name) had

At the risk of going way too far down into the weeds: In 1921, Oildom published a list of all of the operating US refineries. Atlantic had four, three in PA and (a real rarity) one in GA. From what I

I know we're getting a bit off topic here, but the Atlantic Refinery at Port Arthur was founded around 1917, more than likely to draw from the Beaumont and East Texas oilfields, and to ship refined