Tank cars decorated for Sohio? Or standard oil?
One of the industries I’m planning on modelling is the Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio, the first word I could read) refinery/loading dock in the Cleveland flats. While I can find plenty of tankers in all sorts of paint schemes, I’ve yet to see one decorated for my needs.
Is this a roll your own deal?
Ruderunner,
I know they had Texaco and Philip 66 tankers, but I don’t recall ever seeing what you mentioned… someone else may know… I’m from Chicago…
Cheers,
Frank
Ruderunner,
I also just went through the Walters catalog, and there are no tank cares with what you are looking for and none for standard oil either,I found that to be strange,also looked at all the decals and came up empty…
So good luck to you in your quest …
Frank
Standard Oil Co. owned Union Tank Car Company, which owned and operated the fleet of tank cars with UTLX reporting marks (among others).
From this, just about any plain black oil tank car appropriate for your era and with UTLX or UTOX reporting marks would do.
In HO, Red Caboose has produced silver tanks cars with the c. 1950 Standard Oil oval logo in the fairly recent past. See http://www.intermountain-railway.com/distrib/redcaboose/html/RR-33051.htm
Plain black tank cars would be more common, though.
FMILHAUPT,
You just opened up a forgotten part of my mind, I had forgot all about who owned UTLX, LOL.
Cheers,
Frank
Hi!
As you may know, when Mr Rockefeller’s organization was broken up, it yielded several “standard oil” companies - i.e. S.O of New York, New Jersey, California, Ohio, etc. Standard oil of New York (Socony) became Mobil Oil (now ExxonMobil). Esso (named for S and O - Standard Oil) was another…
Sorry, I digress… Yes, Walthers did make Standard Oil tankers (# 5016 single dome 8k cap) about 15 years or so ago when they put out a plethora of 8k gal tank cars about the same time they came out with the Interstate Oil Terminal Cornerstone kit. By the way, they put out Interstate tank car kits - and that was for the sake of the terminal name - as there was no “interstate oil”.
My memory tells me that The Standard Oil of New Jersey became Esso. Esso in turn bought Humble Oil and adopted the Name Exxon. Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999 and is known as Exxon Mobil.
I’ve not seen any tank cars decorated for any of the Standard Oil Companies, most likely because as previously mentioned Standard Oil owned the The Union Tank Car Company , UTLX, so the Standard Oil related oil companies naturally used UTLX cars.
Bob
Bob,
If I may further your comment…
You are absolutely right about Standard Oil of New Jersey being Esso, and Esso combining with Humble Oil and ultimately being renamed Exxon.
In that same long timeframe, Standard Oil of New York, being otherwise known for Mobilgas, combined with Magnolia oil to ultimately forming Mobil Oil Company.
And then, in late 1999, the joining of Exxon and Mobil yielded ExxonMobil Corporation. By the way, note my spelling - it is absolutely correct, and there ain’t no “e” at the end of Mobil or ExxonMobil.
Two note of interest from the above…
First, two of the main companies resulting from the Rockefeller split rejoined again almost 100 years later.
Second, both Humble and Magnolia were Texas companies, with Humble being just north of Houston and Magnolia being primarily in Beaumont.
Very enlightening! Seems my problem isn’t a problem at all. Now I just need to get about 20 tankers of about the right vintage (I’m not that picky)
To the OP…
Don’t forget to check out Ebay for the Walthers 8k Standard Oil t/c I mentioned…