Ed Mines wrote:

I can't recall seeing a photo of a tank car without a ladder.

Ed, you must have never seen either my or Richard Hendrickson's clinics on tank cars, nor my clinic on SP freight cars. But never fear, there will be PLENTY of such photos in my volume on SP tank cars when it's published.

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