Does anyone know what the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad's
reporting marks were?

On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:22 PM, LBSingletary@juno.com wrote:

I recently came across some pictures I took about 20 years ago of

this

three dome tank car. It has a built date of 12-35, capy 80,000,

lt

wt.
47,100.
I've looked through all the CBC's I have access too and have not

come up
with quite this same tank car. Do any of ya'll have any info on

this

car?
Unfortunately at the time I was not interested in building a model

of

this car so I didn't take any measurements. Now I want to build

it. If
I can find out tank diameter (6'?) and length I think I can figure

the

rest out.
Photo's that I took are at:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=69224

http://tinyurl.com/3wyvrs7

Thanks!

Lee

Lee, I'm late to the party here, having been too busy to check
e-mail
for several days, but I note that your query generated numerous
responses, most of them more or less ill-informed and some of them

outlandishly speculative. Partly, that's a consequence of the fact

that UTL's ORER entries are so uninformative as to be nearly
worthless, but there are other resources. In any event, the car was

not a 6,000 gal. three compartment car, as I have numerous photos of

X-3 6K cars and they all had larger diameter three course, not two

course, tanks. UTLX 1252 was shown in the 1952 UTL roster as a
1200-1399 series car of 4,000-5,000 gals. capacity with heater
pipes. I have two photos of cars from that series. One, from the

Rich Burg collection, shows a former UTLX car painted light gray and

with GRYX reporting marks for the John H, Grace Co. of Chicago, a
firm that leased a sizable fleet of mostly second hand tank cars.

The notation on that photo says the the car was at Detroit in 10/79

and is now in the Greenfield Village Museum collection in Michigan,

so if you can get to Michigan easily, you can go there and take as

many photographs and measurements of the car as your heart desires.

The second photo is a color slide from Lloyd Keyser of UTLX 1261 in

the '60s. This car appears to be in service - its coupled to a
Santa
Fe Bx-109 class Super Shock Control box car converted in 1963 from
an
Rr-82 class insulated box car. However, curiously, it appears to
have no reporting marks or number on the sides of the tank, only on

the ends and on the stub side sills of the underframe. Go figure.

On both photos, the legend on the domes reads "WHITE OIL" and
"FITTED
WITH HEATER."

If you want measurements without going to the Greenfield Museum,
it's
not difficult to get close approximations of them - certainly close

enough for model building - from the photos by starting with a known

dimension (i.e., 33" dia. wheels, 4'6" truck wheelbase) and working

from there.

I'm sending you scans of the photos I have off-list.

Richard Hendrickson

Jon, "White Oil" is what many of us call mineral oil or baby oil.
What you put in your Coleman stove was white gas.

On 6/27/2011 3:48 PM, Richard Hendrickson wrote:

On both photos, the legend on the domes reads "WHITE OIL" and "FITTED
WITH HEATER."

In the olden days White Oil is what we used to buy for our Coleman
stoves. I doubt this needed heaters. Also as the car was 3 dome did
the heater/s just heat the end compartment? Or did they go through
the
bulkheads?

measuring them, and looking at hundreds of tank car photos to find (close)
matches.

On both photos, the legend on the domes reads "WHITE OIL" and "FITTED
WITH HEATER."

I recently came across some pictures I took about 20 years ago of this
three dome tank car. It has a built date of 12-35, capy 80,000, lt
wt.
47,100.
I've looked through all the CBC's I have access too and have not
come up
with quite this same tank car. Do any of ya'll have any info on this
car?
Unfortunately at the time I was not interested in building a model of
this car so I didn't take any measurements. Now I want to build
it. If
I can find out tank diameter (6'?) and length I think I can figure the
rest out.
Photo's that I took are at:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=69224

http://tinyurl.com/3wyvrs7

Thanks!

Lee