I photographed those when they were being initially imported. Our club
bought the 5 car set and divided up the set. Seems to me there was one
UP, 1 or 2 SP's, but I've forgotten the other RR's--maybe WP and/or
ATSF? One of the factors was the single spring truck on the UP
model--National B, perhaps. Anyway the UP models do have double ladders.
The last time I saw Jettie at the Duluth Convention he had a bunch
for sale that had been painted and lettered although used.
Bob Werre
On 10/15/12 12:41 PM, tpm1ca wrote:
Tanks, Pieter - excellent information as always!
- Trevor
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
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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