As a last note on tank cars, there is some info on Google Books from the 
Kalmbach "Modeler's Guide to Fright Cars" here:

http://tinyurl.com/26fw3kd

This covers basic info on steam era cars, and the development of the frameless 
cars like the AM models.

Pieter E. Roos


--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Pieter Roos <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Pieter Roos <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tank Cars
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 10:49 AM
> Hi Ed;
> 
> You can see more paint schemes (and buy the cars!) on the
> Hoquat Hobbies site.
> 
> http://www.hoquathobbies.com/DPH/RS/DPHFreight.htm
> 
> Shippers Car Line and ULTX would be most common. The white
> Belcher Oil cars would be rarely seen outside of South
> Florida. Pan Am Oil was a earlier name for Amoco.
> 
> Pieter E. Roos
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 12/13/10, Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tank Cars
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 10:26 AM
> > Pieter,
> > Exactly what I want...Thanks much. As you can tell,
> I'm no
> > expert on prototype car types.
> > 
> > Ed Kozlowsky
> > Sanford, Maine  
> >  
> > --- On Mon, 12/13/10, Pieter Roos <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > From: Pieter Roos <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tank Cars
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 10:16 AM
> > 
> > 
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Ed;
> > 
> > Yes, all the SSA tank cars are the same type. As long
> as
> > the car has an SSA (S Scale America) part number, it
> should
> > be alright for what you want.
> > 
> > There is a picture of one of the cars on the NASG
> site:
> > 
> > http://www.nasg.org/databases/images/fc/DPH2_01.jpg
> > 
> > Pieter E. Roos
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 12/13/10, Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Unfortunately none of the information
> > > you've so kindly listed is of any use on the Des
> > Plaines
> > > site, or are you saying that all the tank cars
> listed
> > in SSA
> > > are of this type?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ed Kozlowsky
> > > Sanford, Maine
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------
> > 
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> > 
> >     [email protected]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
> 
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