Three Printable Texaco Billboards

Photo by Flickr member, Marcin Wichary. Used under a Creative Commons license.

Texaco was founded in 1901 as the Texas Company and in 1928, became the first US oil company to sell gasoline under a single brand name in all 48 states (Hawaii and Alaska were not yet part of the US).

Of all the Texaco gasoline and oil products, one of the most famous is Fire Chief gasoline which was introduced in 1932. Fire Chief gets its name because the octane of the fuel was high enough to meet the needs of fire engines.

Because Texaco has been a national brand since the late twenties, and its Fire Chief product kept that name from 1932-1982, Texaco Fire Chief billboards are a perfect choice for most model railroad layouts.

The three designs provided below are slight variations of a Texaco ad that ran in 1950.

See this billboard in use on the side of Chris Brimley’s scratch-built Dominion Building.

Save and Print the Billboards

To use the images below on your own layout, simply save the images, and print them on a color printer.  Typically, to save an image from the Web, right-click your mouse on the image and select “Save As”, “Save Target As” or something similar.  The specific process for saving the image may be slightly different depending on your individual Internet browser and setup.

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About the Author

Frank Giacobbe — Co-founder of N Scale Limited, Frank has been building models since childhood and modeling in N scale since 2oo3. He is the former author of the blog, N Scale Modeling and a member of the Riverside Historic Society in Riverside, NJ. Frank has a passion for big city modeling, the 1940s and the Pennsylvania Railroad.