Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - General American 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car - Cities Service Oil Company (CSOX) #69 - “Cities Service Oil (Penn)” 1937+ - Black, White With White Lettering (SKU 20009-19024-02)
Available On: November 1, 2022
By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-related products was sharply increasing thanks to the combination of war-related demands as well as demands from home. In order to move oil and new consumer products, tank car producers introduced new car designs. In 1917, General American Tank Car introduced a new general service 8,000 gallon non-insulated tank car that became immensely popular with bulk liquids shippers.
Our RTR models include correct “true-to-life” colors and “hyper-accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement. Finally, our scale replicas operate as well as they look, equipped with free-rolling all-metal wheels and Kadee scale couplers, meaning our models are truly ready to run.
Features for these awesome replicas include:
CSOX “Cities Service Oil (Penn)” 1937+ is another company that shipped oil from the Plains, and they distributed oil in tank cars nearly everywhere due to having an enormous distribution and retail network, which was especially strong on the east coast. Our Cities Service cars were built in 1920, however we have modeled them from the photo shown on our website, depicting the cars with their new lettering as applied in 1937. This white stenciling was applied to the black tank cars. These gorgeous cars.
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