You can actually read the date on the brake service stencil -- looks like 10-1-40 (or maybe 10-4-40). K brakes had to be serviced every 15 months at this time, so that narrows the date of the photo

John Vachon photos for FSA/OWI Chicago, July 1941. Carload of onions. Note that they're packed in mesh bags and a temporary wooden deck is used to void stacking too high. Jack Mullen

I have never paid any attention to the NMRA weighting recommendations and couldn't begin to say what they are. For styrene cars I use what I am given. For resin cars of any kind I use I use six of

Sure they did: https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/general-american-10000-gallon-1917-design-radial-course-tank-car/ Randy -- — Randy Hammill Prototype Junction http://prototypejunction.com Modeling

I hope there is a prototype for the red car. I have a Arnold Rapido N scale car. I have been hanging onto it for.years I don't know what type of tank car the model is but I think it is a nice

Incidentally, I was recently in a brick and mortar shop that had one each of the Tangent Scale Modesl Humble and Sinclair 10,000 GATC 1917-Design tank cars. In case anyone is interested in those,

Andy, Not wanting to get into a flame war here, especially with oil refinery products about, but your statement: "Rio Grande, while being owned by Richfield Oil, was the recipient of the only US 48

Andy Carlson wrote: "I don't believe that Tangent has made a 10000 gallon GATC tank car (yet). " Andy, Tangent has a website and this page shows our 1917-design tanks with 10,000 gallon radial course

Rich Christie wrote: Actually, the modeling description was an article in Railroad Model Craftsman, published back in July 2011. I don't have a scan of the article, but do have a PDF of what I

That's pretty much what I was thinking. B&W photos might be scarce since with some film black-on-red = black. FWIW, Socony-Vacuum (another baby Standard - Standard Oil Company of New York) had some

1948 is still in the post war optimism era. Could it have been a one off for display purposes. It wouldn’t be the first time that error was made. A certain heavily over-represented obscure tank car

Without looking at the parts, I think the worst case might be having to lengthen the Tangent underframe. That would take two underframes. But the left-over ends could be used for a 4,000 gallon tank!

Richard Townsend wrote: Photograph would be nice, of course. But AFAIK all the early Champ stuff is totally prototype based, even if some lettering is a little crude. I am not aware of any Champ

Andy, I know Tony Thompson did some cross-bashing with Intermountain and Athearn tankers. I believe he has that info in his blog. Rich Christie

Schuyler (et. Al.) A photo of my EBAX car is still on line at: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/modeling/models/millera/ebax3064main.html Regards, Andy Miller

I don't believe that Tangent has made a 10000 gallon GATC tank car (yet). Years ago, I discovered that the ACF Type 27 10000 gallon tank was nearly identical in dimensions as the GATC built similar

Photos: PFE 36624 (R-40-2) Undated photos from the Library of Congress, probably from the early

After a couple quick searches I did find a few Conoco tank cars on Colorado narrow gauge lines but none seemed to have red lettering. Silver tank cars had green lettering and black tank cars had white

This talk of vintage California gasoline producers brought up the mention of Tidewater/Associated. Associated was a large brand in California going by "Flying A", not be confused with the Pegasus of

On tank cars, I think "EC" always means East Chicago (IN). GA built cars there, and Sinclair serviced theirs at the refinery. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA