I see what you mean -- but isn't it just a Van Dyke tank mounted onto a later frame (really, just a center sill)?
At 12:52 AM 2/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
Tim, Look again, 57801 is not a Van Dyke car. I don't think that they lasted past 1953. There are only five standard gauge cars listed in the 7-53 ORER. Bill Kelly
Tim wrote:
snippage< There's a 1969 photo of UTLX #57801, a Van Dyke tank car, in the Classic Freight Cars Volume 2.