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Above are three photos of Atlas tank cars.  Tank cars in the late 70s and early 80s were mostly plain black schemes like seen here.  Atlas makes a wonderful selection of applicable types.  First HPCX is a car owned by the Hercules Chemical Company.  They make chemicals for paper processing and armaments.  It is a 20,700 gallon car.  Next is a GATX tank car.  It is owned by a leasing company, also called GATX.  This car is marked for chlorine service.  It is a 17,360 gallon car.  Finally, MOBX is a petroleum car owned by Mobil Oil.  It is a 23,500 gallon car.  Atlas offers all these cars in multiple road numbers and for multiple owners.  They are probably the best value on the market in tank cars.  Smaller, 11,000 gallon, cars were quite rare in this era, but did exist.  Those smaller cars were made in the 50s and 60s and were near the ends of their lives in the Chessie Era.  I keep the weathering rather light on tank cars.  Most look really good in the pictures I've seen.  I do use dark gray powders on the top of the car to represent some fading.  I did it more heavily on the HPCX car, note how the road number looks darker.  I also apply gloss coat with a brush around the middle of the car to represent the sheen of the spilled load.  This is on almost every tank car I've seen.