David, Dave, Folks, All this discussion of GATC tank cars has me looking at my fleet to see how I might both take advantage of Tangents most recent announcement and adjust my fleet. Are there any

If anyone is interested I made an online map of the W&W: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1ibeSfl3NNyIdCJ2IfquIhmqESVhe7COt&ll=40.05543117013464%2C-80.28680978050065&z=11 Chris

Don, Do you have Ted Culotta's article "New York Central "1916" Steel Auto Cars and Rebuilt Steel Auto Cars" from the January 2005 RMC? Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Bob, Your best bet is with the Waynesburg & Washington Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwrailroad Jim Weinschenker runs that and he has a trove of W&W photos. IIRC, many

Bob, A book was published some time ago on the W&W:

The far right flat car in this image bears a 7-27 weigh stencil. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Don Valentine asked: "Being a Rutland modeler I have a number of these box car and auto car kits and have some questions about two that turn out to be NYC cars, NOT Rutland versions. For those who do

Photo: Steel Beams On PRR Flatcars (Circa 1927-1936) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A943.000016.GN/viewer Scroll on the photo to

Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Does anyone have photos/photo links to the rolling stock of this railroad? Thanks. From Wikipedia: The Waynesburg and Washington Railroad was a 28-mile 3 foot gauge

Being a Rutland modeler I have a number of these box car and auto car kits and have some questions about two that turn out to be NYC cars, NOT Rutland versions. For those wo do not know the difference

Steve, Um, most shippers did not have scales, so this is nothing special or specific to tank cars. It also does not present any problem. Shippers or consignees had cars weighed by the railroad. Tank

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 06:58 PM, Ray Carson wrote: So in the end, would a Tangent 1936+ scheme tank car fit my 1939 year without making any decal changes? How about older tank cars that are 5+ years

I’ll jump into this and hopefully not add to any confusion but there is another reason for not listing the car weight on tank cars back then. Only the largest manufacturers or customers had a scale

I was mainly confused due to seeing prototype photos with a "reweigh" date taken before photos (don't have any example photos, sorry) and I kept assuming tankers were treated the same as other freight

Ray, I'm not sure why you are confused. Tony's comments are clear. Tank cars are not box cars. They were not required to be reweighed on a regular interval. Their cargos were not billed based on

Hello everyone, With the release of Tangent's new run of 8000 gallon 1917-design tankers, I was interested in something that got me confused months before. So I was reading on Tony Thompson's blog

I had a few thoughts vis-a-vis tracking the GATX fleet based on my experiences in working through understanding the Imperial Oil/Transit Company Ltd. to Products Tank Line of Canada fleet, and the

A fantastic discussion. Loaded with information and I am looking forward to the Tangent GATC type 30 hopefully in both 8K and 10K versions with AB brakes. Shifting my plain black tank fleet emphasis

Photo: S.P. Gondola 53336 & U.P. Gondola (1921) A fair quality photo from the Vintage Portland

I think we have enough information now to make a rough approximation of the GATX fleet composition in the late 1940s. Assuming that the GATX WW1 fleet buildup (1651 cars in 1914 to 10806 in 1920) was