What's your favorite Tank Car?

Modeling the WW2 era I'm always on the lookout for all black tank cars after seeing numerous pictures of long consists heading east. Don, I have 3 of the Sinclair cars. I believe a Public Delivery Track special run. My favorite has to be another special run they did of the Indian Refining Co. . Plain black but a small flash of red and blue. A close second has to be the Wolfs Head car..

I just ordered a set of these from Weaver (it accepted my credit card, so I assume they're coming)

I wanted to wait for Atlas to do a re-issue .... to go along with my HO set .... but I figured I should jump on these. I really like 'em.

I'm really starting to like things with maple leaves and beavers.

Favorite - the last one that I built!

Weaver O U1342LD-282 40' Tank Car, Mobil Gas

I think these were slated for production but never made it. My grandfather worked for Socony-Vacuum (i.e. Mobil Oil) in Manhattan many years ago and I would love to get one or more tank cars like these on the layout as tribute to his career.

I prefer the "Red Caboose" 10,000 gallon versions.

First choice for me would be the O-scale 1:48 aluminum tankers that K-Line produced before their demise.    They were way ahead of the standard offerings for their day, and I have a bunch of them including the Reading series, UP (special runs for The Train Loft), Black Santa Fe's, and a few one-offs as well.  Great looking cars! 

Second up for me would be the tankers from Lionel's TankTrain series.  I was glad to see Lionel re-issue this series, 'cause I missed out on the first-runs from the mid-2000's decade, and I wasn't gonna pay the ridiculous prices sellers wanted on the secondary market.    Glad to see the dust has settled again for this terrific series of rolling stock.

Atlas-O's rolling stock is always top-notch... I just had to draw the line at some point, and sold them recently.  (I had about 18 of them.)  We all have our limits. 

David

Here is my favorites.

Don

 I'm sure this one is on your list, too.

Bob

I have one of these tankers you reference here (I think): Ford Motor Company. Found it at a hobby shop a couple of years ago while on vacation. I don't own many tankers, but you are right about the aluminum ones from K-Line - great product.

Agree with e K-Line aluminum takers in Santa Fe livery

By ETS.

I remember driving with my dad when I was a kid down in Long Beach. Thousands of oil wells and endless lines of back tank cars. Don

Second Choice, also by ETS:

No idea why, but I love my old-school "Lionel Lines" tank car #6025.  I know it's not super desirable, it's not scale (it's pretty small actually) and it's banged up, but maybe all these things are what I like about it?  Who knows...

Anyway, I bought it for a steal at a local show and it gets tons of time on the track.

Yes, Len.  I have those on my roster... a couple of the "one-off's" I was referring to.    One of those Ford's has a white background... the other is on a red background.

David

K-Line knocks another out of the park?  I am not even familiar with these K-Line aluminum tank cars, like I am with the passenger ones.  Howsabout posting a few photos.

I want tank cars to go with gas stations I have built...I have tracked down the two Lionel Skelly cars (but not the MTH one, which is modern propane, I think) and the MODERN Frontier Oil tank car from MTH, which is incorrect for my era.  What I have been trying to find is a photo of a Frontier Oil tank car prior to WWII, maybe 8,000-10,000, probably black, but?

If I find that, that will be my favorite, for I will get decals made for Atlas or some good

model.

I've got a lot of them, but my favorite has to be the Life Savers car.  Also, everyone seems to notice and comment on it.

Me too; the Lifesavers tank car is definitely my favorite. It's a great conversation piece.

What timing. I received this one from my daughter tonight for Fathers Day. There is a story in our family involving Chessie the Railroad Kitten that relates to when my daughters were both very young. The car is not scale, but it's the thought that counts.  As of tonight this one goes on my personal favorites list.

Gilbert's #24319 Penn Salt tank car and #24324 Hooker Chemical tank car. 

i third the live savers car, i just love it. next would be any from the chrome mpc era cars.

Definitely another vote here for the Lionel Lifesavers tankers.  The Cal-Stewart Lifesavers series makes for one of the most whimsical O-Gauge trains on my roster.

David

My favorite paint scheme is this:

My favorite tank is the 715 Lionel.  The one above is prewar Lobaugh.

Lionel postwar Cities Service.  6045 or 6465.

Richie

I like the Atlas ADM "Molecule" 25,500 gallon tank car. Prototypical ADM tankers have some nice graphics and I sometimes see them parked on sidings near me.  Unfortunately, the model needs an O-54 curve so I've had to pass on it. ('Way to big for the living room.)

Tomlinson Run Railroad

9/19/2015 Update: Lionel's newest 2015 catalog features an ADM unibody tank car with the leaf logo that will run on O-31, 6-82855. I just preordered one along with a GATX from the nice folks at Charles Ro. Delivery is July 2016.  TRRR

I like the "funnel flow" corn syrup tank cars. 

Can't go wrong with Canadian 

This one goes back to high school. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and you actually got an education in the public school, our high school math/science block class went on field trip to Allied Chemicals El Segundo, CA Plant. This Weaver car pretty much matched some of the cars that were there when I visited the facility. We also toured Dow Chemicals and Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG Chemicals) in Torrance, CA, but Allied stuck in my head. Maybe it was because of the impressive size of the rail facility there.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and you actually got an education in the public school,

OK on the dinosaurs, but you're making up the other part. 

I always wanted the red on white 6463 Double dome rocket fuel car to go with my 6650 rocket launcher car. A bare bones tank but too cool 

 It was the only "space race/cold war" accessory besides the balloon target car, I cant remember having, or at least having access to

I have one today of coarse, but cant find a photo

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My very first has a lot of run time though. The weighted 6465 Double dome Sunoco rarely sees rest.

too close to call...

I have always liked the Postwar Lionel metal tank cars since I owned one as a kid.

Some of my favorites

I am also partial to these tank cars of which this one is an example...

I like this one.

My favorites are a toss up between the Lionel Lifesavers and the Williams Plasticville Petroleum Products tankers.....

No pics of the Lifesavers tanker but I'm sure everyone knows what it looks like by now....

Paul

The Lionel Service Station Special Smoke Fluid Tank Car is my favorite...I have 12 of these scale 8,000 gallon tank cars...

this is getting to be a great post! Thanks to all.

I like all tank cars! I didn't have my Lionel Tank train pictures handy. I'd have to say that the Atlas Occi car hits me the best. Looks just like the ones at the plant.

scale,

   This is what this old CID Special Agents favorite Tank Car looks like, the newer models are even cooler yet!  The 534 even makes cool kid type tank sounds.

PCRR/Dave