Tanks, Pieter - excellent information as always!
- Trevor
--- In [email protected], Pieter Roos <pieter_roos@...> wrote:
>
> 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 <tpmarshall@...> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
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