Mr. Hendrickson,

It's also on the "Sunray"/"Tank Gas Corp." cars,
but not on the proto 2000 10,000 gallon UTLX types..........
Or where these 10,000 gallon UTLX types for a different kind of
liquid?

Regards,
Arnold.


--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@o...>
wrote:

Fellow modellers,

Just received from the U.S. severall Atlas 11.000 tank cars.
For instance UTLX 96266 & 96269.
They all are lpg tank cars, right?
But on the tank you can read "Water Capacity 91372 Pounds".
Did they transported also water with it?

Regards to you all,
Arnold van Heyst
Netherlands.

No, Arnold, those were high pressure cars used only for liquified

petroleum

gas. However, some tank car builders and owners stenciled their

cars with

the water capacity in pounds as an arbitrary measure of tank

capacity.

I've never understood why they did this, but I have numerous

examples in my

photo collection.

Richard H. Hendrickson
Ashland, Oregon 97520