Tank car era question

[Ralph]

Ralph
There's a few questions you need to answer before get too carried away w/ your Gulf tank cars.
Just because both your models & prototype pix say Gulf are they the same car i.e. is the Walthers car a duplicate of the prototype car? What are the built/new dates of the model & prototype (cars from '20s-'30s didn't last into the '60s-'70)s. Do the capacities of the model & prototype match? Were 8052 gal. tank cars used that much in the '60s- '70s?

Good questions. You motivated me to take a close look at the model cars themselves and I observe their capacity is 10,000 gallons and the "new" date is 1950. A little more research under the subject "10,000gallon Gulf tanker" led to this:
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I looked up WRNX and found this: "WRNX - Gulf Oil Products Company; Chevron USA, Inc."

So, so far I can confirm that the Gulf lettering scheme on the tanker was prototypical for at least some tankers...can't confirm it was for later 10,000 gallon tankers like the model in the link immediately above...but I might be happy to assume so.