Re: Mystery Tank Car
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John Barry
Mark, Not quite. The casting integrated the bottom of the tank with the underframe, replacing the traditionally separate structures with a single part that both carried the loads and formed the bottom course to contain the liquid cargo' This lowered the height of the car and allowed the very large 16,200 gallon car to fit in the then extant clearance diagrams. Three additional conventional plate courses were riveted to the cast underframe to form the tank. The Tk-L class came from General American with the Ajax power hand brake, KC airbrakes, and 70 ton one-level Dahlman trucks. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736
From: mark_landgraf via Groups.Io <mark_landgraf@...> To: "main@RealSTMFC.groups.io" <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Mystery Tank Car I found the photo on page 392 of the 1937 CBC.
However the drawings make it look like there is aconcave shape to the top of the cast to allow the tank to be cradled. Mark
On Friday, October 12, 2018, 7:58:56 PM EDT, John Barry <northbaylines@...> wrote:
Jon, From the ATSF Tank Car book pg 71 the GSC one piece cast tank bottom/bolsters/draft gear appeared in the 1937 CBC. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736 From: Jon Miller <atsfus@...> To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Mystery Tank Car On 10/12/2018 12:20 PM,
mark_landgraf via Groups.Io wrote:
If the casting came from Commonwealth One of the CBCs has a picture of the casting
but can't remember the year off the top of my head. Doubt
anyone is going to pay those prices for the drawings.
-- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, SPROG, JMRI User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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