Re: Small tank cars


mike turner <yardcoolieyahoo@...>
 

Bobby Pitts has done a model of the bromine car. Seeing that tiny jewel
amongst his collection of rail whales is pretty amazing. Bobby's display
of tank cars is one of the highlights of Bob Harpe's Savannah RPM meet.

Mike Turner
Simpsonville, SC 29681

Richard Brennan wrote:

At 09:59 AM 7/4/2009, Jon Miller wrote:
consisted of 3,000 and 6,000 gal. ICC-105s assigned to tetraethyl
lead service.<

In one of the major mags there was an article on making these cars.
Don't remember much but will try the back issue search Kalmbach owns and
seems to have forgotten about.
from: http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=scratchbuild+tankcar&MAG=MR

Build a bromine car
Model Railroader, February 2001 page 74
Scratchbuilding a rare and distinctive 0 scale tanker using styrene stock
( BROMINE, DRAWING, "SCOTT, DICK", SCRATCHBUILD, TANKCAR,
CONSTRUCTION, FREIGHTCAR, PROTOTYPE, MR )


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Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA
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