Hmmm, I am surprised they would choose an Oklahoma supplier. One would think they would have stayed closer to home with Sinclair, Mobile, or Phillips.I got ragged on because my tank car was a Texaco tanker. Conoco tank cars supplied the town. Thursday I will have a Conoco car so I won't hear any whining.
Hmmm, I am surprised they would choose an Oklahoma supplier. One would think they would have stayed closer to home with Sinclair, Mobile, or Phillips.
Texaco sold out to British Petroleum. Phillips 66 and Conoco are now one and the same and as such the Conoco "headquarters" is no longer in Oklahoma. I'm not even certain the Tulsa refinery is in operation anymore. We have Cenex in Kansas too, but I don't know where they fit in the big picture. I mentioned the three I did because each of them had refineries in Wyoming or Montana in the 1930s.We don't have many different gasoline brands up here. Currently, we have Exxon Mobile, Cenex, Conoco, Phillips 66 and Sinclair. Texaco bailed out around 1980 and I haven't see a Standard Oil station around lately. From what I understand, whe gas is refined, additives specific to a brand is added an then it is shipped out. Independent refineries ship out gas and diesel for multiple brands.
Neat mirror placement. Holy John Allen Batman!View attachment 14960
The above photo is looking eastward at Butte, the main town on my layout. The photo shows the east end of Butte Yard, and a partial view of the Turntable.
That is one fine locomotive and a great paint job. I thought they got the yellow just right on that one. I still kick myself for not buying both road numbers that were offered at the time. As opposed to the RS-3 that I have several of - all with the same road number.For diesels, on my roster, the locos I have that where decorated for the Northern Pacific are: An Atlas RS-1, .
As opposed to the RS-3 that I have several of - all with the same road number.
Well yeah and I believe I have all those things, but when the paint line is already 63 items deep, it might never come to the top of the list.Easy enough to paint over the numbers and get an RS-3 decal set from Microscale and renumber them.