In 1916 the NYC ordered several thousand 46’ 2’ IL composite gondolas of which some, in later days, had the wood sides replaced with steel (an example: http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/nyc-346078.jpg).   The original cars bear superficial similarity to the PRR’s own Gr classes of cars, which were a few feet shorter.

Aside from the obvious visible similarities we can make out from photos, how similar were the cars in their intrinsic design?  Were the NYC a stretched version of the Gr (or the Gr a cut off copy of the NTC car)?  I can make out differences in the longer side supports, around the end sill, and the car corner....

I suppose another way to put it is to ask: can one kitbash two models of a Gr into one NYC car w/o being embarrassed if the result is viewed by members of this list?

Dave Nelson

 

Unfortunately us RPM'ers seem to have painted ourselves into a corner when
it comes to tank cars. Most tank car designs were highly specialized and cars
were produced in very small quantities. I could REALLY use some mid to late
1950's all welded tank cars anywhere from 8k to 19k in size but what are the
chances that anyone will produce one? With the exception of Atlas and Accurail,
the other manufacturers have been scared off from producing prototypical models
and then applying NON-prototypical paint schemes to those models to increase
sales and justify the tooling costs.

And even though I love this level of detail, I realize that we'll never see a
half dozen different cars at this level in what's left of our lifetimes.

I guess I'm just gonna have to dress up some old AHM tank cars... :-) Dennis
how about it, a nice Accurail tank car?

Tim O'Connor

>It seems like we still need models of smaller capacity tank cars e.g. 6,000-gal
>to 8,000-gal. at this quality of tooling.
>Bob Witt

On Jul 21, 2015, at 11:08 AM, rwitt_2000@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:

It seems like we still need models of smaller capacity tank cars e.g. 6,000-gal to 8,000-gal. at this quality of tooling.

Bob Witt