On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Anthony Thompson wrote:

"Varying degrees of work" is exactly right. Not all those
company cars were General American cars (thus don't share the
underframe); not all had the same dome DIAMETER; not all shared the
same tank length and diameter, or if you will, tank proportions. I
think Richard Hendrickson has explored some of those company tank car
options, and may wish to chime in on this topic.

Yes, and apart from the SP cars (and their WP clones, as Garth Groff
has pointed out), all of them would involve a degree of modification or
kit-bashing that is out of all proportion to the quality of the
results, given that the Athearn models are hardly state of the art to
begin with. In any case, Bruce Nordstrand was inquiring about cars
that could plausibly be used on a model of the Interstate RR down in
the Virginia coal country, and that could be modeled with readily
available kits or RTR. In that context, it's pointless to even mention
the Athearn tank cars.

Richard Hendrickson