Hi Trevor; If I'm not mistaken, those are Southern Pacific or UP tank cars imported some years ago by Southwind or RR models. They would be large, 12500 gal cars. The back one is clearly a General American designed car with the two rung steps and double strap holding the tank to the support.
Tony Thompson wrote about modeling them in his blog: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/05/modeling-sp-tank-cars.html Assuming you don't need an SP car, you could look for cars of similar gallon capacity for GATX or UTLX and letter them appropriately. The ladder on one side only is not so unusual, I recall it was a standard feature on UTLX design cars, the single largest tank car fleet! Cars that UTLX acquired from other lines did have ladders on both sides, but their home design cars didn't. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 10/15/12, tpm1ca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone: > I picked up two brass tank cars yesterday at a local > gathering. I'm trying to determine the prototypes so I know > how to paint/finish them. Any help would be appreciated. > Photos and more information can be found here: > http://themodelrailwayshow.com/cn1950s/?p=1604 > Thanks in advance! > - Trevor > > Trevor Marshall > > Port Rowan in 1:64 > I model a steam-era Canadian National branch line terminal > in S scale, and blog about it here: > http://themodelrailwayshow.com/cn1950s > > The Model Railway Show > Listen in as two S scalers (and recovering radio > newscasters) host a podcast about the hobby: > http://www.themodelrailwayshow.com > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
