Hi Paul;
1950's era tanks are mounted on a frame with a center sill and side walkways (not really a flatcar as there is no side sill nor decking over most of the frame). The AM tanks are clearly too late in design, 1960s or later. You're best bet for 1950's style cars would be mounting an Athearn "chemical tank car" tank on a shortened Des Plains tank car frame. This would be workable because so many insulated tanks of the period were very small 3-4000 gals, and the Athearn tank is rather large (13000 gal). There was also an article in MR a few years ago on constructing an O scale tank car in styrene that would be very applicable to S. Pieter --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The S Scale American Models website shows that the $19.95 sale of selected > tank cars is still on ( _http://www.americanmodels.com/rolling. stock/tank.html_ > (http://www.americanmodels.com/rolling.stock/tank.html) ) > The price is quite tempting but the site thumbnail sketch indicates that > the prototype was built in the 1960's and I model the 1950's. > That said, looking thru an old Railmodel Journal - July 2003, I came > across an article "ICC 105 11,000-Gallon High-Pressure Tank Cars." The picture > seems similar (putting aside the graphics on the AM cars which could be > repainted), although the prototypes in the article appear in effect to be tanks > mounted on flatcar beds while the AM cars appear to be freestanding tanks. > Welcome any comments (including from folks in the STMF group) on the > prototypicality of the AM cars for the 1950's, to include whether, besides > repainting, simple "surgery" could yield a model with a higher degree of '50's > prototypicality. > Thanks > Paul Schilling > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
