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Sinclair tank cars on the move

Sinclair tank cars on the move? Just for the record, on April 9, 1949, UP engine 4018 powered a WB train from Laramie,WY, to Rawlins, WY, containing 59 MTY Sinclair tank cars in addition to 34 other

By Mikebrock · #135377 ·

Re: General Tank Car Discussion

Companies exchanging gasoline went far higher up the chain than just local jobbers. When working on the river I would see a barge loaded at Ashland and delivered to Chevron. And the barge might

By Charles Peck · #135376 ·

Re: PS-# intro dates

Scott Chatfield wrote: I happen to have a Pullman-Standard brochure plugging the new PS-2. It includes a letter from a P-S employee, dated July 1953, and states that the info may be helpful to the

By Tony Thompson · #135375 ·

PS-# intro dates

I'm not sure I've ever seen a Pullman ad or document saying exactly when each of the "PS-#" car types were introduced _by that name_. I've always thought of the PS-# family as being all welded

By D. Scott Chatfield · #135373 ·

Southern 41' gondola ends

I thought a photo of this gondola would help in idenfiying the ends as Dreadnaught or Murphy. The second, inside end is identical in the actual photo. The photo is the new upload to Files under

By George Courtney · #135372 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /aTrain 001.jpg Uploaded by : gsc3

By STMFC@... · #135371 ·

Re: General Tank Car Discussion

Randy (not signing his full name) wrote: Yes, in two ways. First, if Gulf doesn't have enough cars at some point, they would go to General American or Shippers or North American and lease a few.

By Tony Thompson · #135374 ·

Re: General Tank Car Discussion Pt 8 Paint & Lettering, Regional Issues, Era, and Weathering (UNCLASSIFIED)

This has all been great stuff, Elden. Thanks! I have actually been researching tank cars for my layout, and it seems my mix is going to be quite different. I'm modeling New Britain, CT, home to

By rhammill · #135370 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: General tank car discussion (UNCLASSIFIED)

And at least one fuel dealer had the tanks a good hundred yards from the unloading facility next to the tracks. Maybe just in case a fire did occur at the rack, it would keep that fire away from the

By midrly · #135369 ·

General Tank Car Discussion Pt 8 Paint & Lettering, Regional Issues, Era, and Weathering (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Groups; I decided to add a bit on Paint & Lettering, Regional Issues, Era, and Weathering. This is where the rubber meets the road; the place you model,

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #135368 ·

Re: Sylvan Models, was modeling highway trucks

Shame about that. His one-piece body for the CN 503500-513499 40' steel-frame boxcar was a nice piece of work and easy to build. I need a few more! Steve Lucas.

By midrly · #135367 ·

Other Tank Car Resources

In addition to the excellent “general discussions” of tank cars posted by Elden, I have also found Ted Culotta’s “Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual – Volume Two: Tank Cars” to be

By Aley, Jeff A · #135366 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: RE: General tank car discussion pt 6 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Wow, this is turning sour... I was also talking to the BBFCL list, and that was just an example of what folks should be looking at, not a definitive look

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #135365 ·

Re: General tank car discussion pt 6 - SINCLAIR OIL

Hey Mike, Having four oil companies (West Harding, Whiting, Sinclair and Texas Oil), a refining company (Gulf) and a gasoline service company there in 1948 a few years before the C&O dieselized

By water.kresse@... · #135364 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: RE: General tank car discussion pt 6 (UNCLASSIFIED)

1963? All this speculation about the future.... Here are the REAL top 20 tank car numbers: UTLX 38678 GATX 26916 SHPX 6896 SDRX 5599 NATX 4427 CYCX 3929 TCX

By devansprr · #135363 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: RE: General tank car discussion pt 6 (UNCLASSIFIED)

> I didn't overlook them; I gave data for 1962, not 1950. > Elden Gatwood Yes, you did. SP still had over 1,100 tank cars listed in 1963. Ithought we were supposed to confine ourselves to 1960 and

By Tim O'Connor · #135362 ·

Re: Triple Valve Questions

Very well written manual, Dennis. I model 1956 in Eastern Ontario. But I also work for a certain Class One railway as a loco engineer. It's useful to relate what older equipment had for air brake

By midrly · #135361 ·

30 Days to ST. LOUIS RAILROAD PROTOTYPE MODELER'S MEET - 8-9 AUG 2015

2015 ST. LOUIS RAILROAD PROTOTYPE MODELER'S MEET Meet us in St. Louis for the NINTH ANNUAL St. Louis RPM Meet on Friday, August 7th and Saturday, August 8th, 2015 at the Gateway Convention

By golden1014 · #135360 ·

Re: General tank car discussion pt 6 - SINCLAIR OIL

A further comment on Al's question---- When the ERIE dieselized, they needed right now, What? No. 2 diesel oil and lots of it. I have seen a photo of the new Hornell, New York diesel service area

By Schleigh Mike · #135359 ·

Re: Lehigh Valley Boxcars P&L

Branchline did an LV 63000 series boxcar, which I'm just now building as one of the last of my Branchline kits. It has a black roof. Prototype was built in 1950, and there are several good photos on

By mopacfirst · #135358 ·

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