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Re: a nice shot of UTLX 59762

Richard Hendrickson
 

On Mar 21, 2014, at 7:12 PM, destorzek@... wrote:

Ehrrr... if this was a four course car, it would have horizontal lap seam in the upper quadrants of the sides, like the much maligned Gould/Tichy tank car. With a central top seam, that indicates two upper sheets and a floor sheet.

Dennis

Thanks, Dennis.  I was going to point that out as well.  UTL X-3s all had three horizontal course tanks, with the exception of a very few short 8K gal. cars built very early (ca. 1917) in the history of the X-3 design.

Richard Hendrickson
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