More Other Acid Tank Car Uses--In the mid-50's the GLF fertilizer plant which my Dad managed was converted to produce granular products. This included, among a bunch of other stuff, an outside storage

To the group: There are 17 b&w photos of acid tank cars in the Barriger Library. The link to that page is https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/page21/ Vince Altiere

Elden enthused: > I am very excited that we are finally going to get an acid tank car. "An" acid tank car???? If you're merely excited about Tangent's neat post-1950 welded acid tank, you'll

Copper Hill TN on the L&N produced sulfuric acid from smelting copper.. Chuck Peck

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; You guys provided a lot of info, and yes, there were a LOT of chem. producers in WV that shipped to neighboring states. Westvaco was one. Tangent

Guys, this is just a guess but I know that the Kanawa river area, Charleston and up and down the river in WV must have produced acids, I know that was part of my territory during the early 1980's and

Hello Everyone, If someone could provide me with counts for GNs box car series for 1899 I would be very grateful. There are not many. Any month would do but towards the middle of the year would be

There were many chemical plants making acid and other chemicals in the Niagara Falls area due to the abundance of cheap power and water. Brian Carlson.

To follow up on Gary’s question: where was acid produced? I am aware of the chemical coast of Texas, but what were other areas where acid cars might be loaded. I could see a couple of acid cars

Most power plants also require acid and caustic for water treatment. I imagine water facilities for the public do as well. Scott Kremer On Nov 13, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Schleigh Mike

Other Acid Tank Car Uses--- Delivering acid to tanneries found throughout much of the northeast. Paper mills needed acids and sent their waste acid off to other purposes. Many other

Elden, Any chance we could get you to expand on the comment "literally dozens of users"? There are no steel mills on my railroad; but I sure would like to have a reason to buy one or two of these

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; I am very excited that we are finally going to get an acid tank car. I have been waiting it seems forever to get a car like this. It is one of

Arved Grass writes: " Fog is rare here in the tropics." Well...I'm not sure the terrm "rare" is proper. I don't recall seeing fog in central Florida during the summer but on many occasions, I

I guess to fill the void left by Floquil, Motrak Models is offering several black shades, white and earth tones in Scalecoat II flat for weathering purposes and general painting. Scalecoat blended

That’s not a bad idea, Chuck. I was just reading Denny’s plaint, and I am wondering if my success with MM is due to my not trying to stretch it out and use less, when more works, maybe, better.

I tried scrubbing the test tender with a toothbrush under running water. I remove the Micro Mask but also a significant portion of the non masked overspray. No clear dividing line between the masked

Andy For journal ends (and other uses) I use small bits of poster putty. Easy to use, and re-use over and

I included this link in the first post -- it explains the different paint products in detail. Vallejo also makes other products besides

Hi Denny, I use Micro Mask all the time, BUT I mainly use it to protect the pointed journal ends of wheelset axles when I airbrush them. I also use it for such things as piston rods and some