Mike What paInt did you use on this car or is this the color of the undecorated car? Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Thanks for the correction. I took the first value I saw. I also now see a value of 7.91 pounds per gallon, which nets 11,125 gallons. The 10000 gallon value makes sense when viewing the tank car

Whoa there! It looks like Google is using a density for asphalt pavement, which would be around 145 lb/cf. What you want is the density of liquid asphalt, which isn't much greater than that of water.

Especially for the narrow gauge trucks!! Steve Hile

I think the load weight limit was met, more or less, but not the car's capacity. I would think that with a heavier product like asphalt, this was common. Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel

All, In my attempt to model prototypically accurate freight cars of the Apache Railway, I am seeking this group’s expertise. I would like to know what kind of tank car this

That’s a much larger tank car, either 8000 or 10000 gallons, but maybe not full. Steve Hile

Eric How about a photo Larry Smith

Yes, these are a set of 8-rung ladders made by the late Terry Wegmann who also did a 7-rung set. Usually the black ones were cast in Styrene and the light colored ones were just whatever leftover mix

Thanks Ben. I was able to find two pairs in a nearby shop’s old stock. They had plastic wheels, so I set about exchanging them. I discovered that the sideframes hook onto the center frame and

Anybody know who makes the ladders in the photo? Think they came out of a Speedwitch kit but not sure. Thanks, Scott McDonald

I should add to my earlier note that outside the gondola car body tarp attachment could have been a safety hazard if came loose and covered any mandatory safety appliances. The possibility of loose

Using Google conversions, 88000 pounds of asphalt would be about 607 cubic feet which converts to about 4540 gallons. So, a fairly small tank car. Steve Hile

Thank you Dennis It would not be a problem but for the unreliability of the supplies of HO metal wheelsets from any given manufacturer due to extended supply chains. This supply chain unreliability

Jeff, Group; I decided to spend enough time with mine to know what I was talking about, so here goes: The cars most accurately (and do they!), represent the final and largest group of F30A

The NMRA RP-24, like most NMRA recommendations, bears no relationship to the prototype and, while revised in 1982, was already generally ignored by the time I did a survey of available freight trucks

Larry, Can you share the reporting marks and car number? The capacity sounds odd but the reporting marks and car number may be used to cross check in an ORER. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

I’ve got 5 decal projects going right now, and this is at the bottom of the stack. I’ll post photos of the final result, I think the weathering will help make it pop, but this is what I’ve got

Thanks guys. Very interesting. There were certainly enough boxcars around to load stuff like barrels and sacks or such things that would be best tarped if put in a gondola. Ken, if not a burden I'd

In 1933, the East Broad Top received its first standard gauge car in interchange at the Timber Transfer where they exchanged standard trucks for narrow gauge trucks. In a recent article in the FEBT