While I am drilling holes in batches of 100, I am trying to decide about a paint scheme. The Oso Grande Oil Company owns it’s fleet of tank cars. I bought 12 of the Bachmann spectrum framed cars years ago when Al Kramer was blowing them out in case lots on EBay. To represent this. They are all painted silver. These will be the crude oil haulers coming to the refinery in Albuquerque from wildcat fields around Farmington.
At some point the finished products have to go to market. Most of that will be by truck or standard gauge tanker. For those business served by the Cibola, A NG tanker is the way to go and thus the reason for this car. The paint job therefore should be shameless self promotion typical of the 1920-30s.
Since the crude haulers are silver my first thought was to go with that.
Other common colors of the era would be black, red and white.
Some other choices exist like this Shell car that I think was yellow.
Not all cars were one solid color. Sometimes the frame, tank bottom, domes and ends were a different color. I will probably incorporate some of those ideas to help give the car character.
About the only thing I am opposed to is solid black since I have a set of AMS Shell tankers painted black with white lettering.
This the logo. Depending on the color of the tank body I will choose a contrasting color for the lettering.
Feel free to throw in ideas. The only designs I have already discarded are the half and half seen on some Halliburton cars and the center band used by Hooker. I think those are both to modern.
