David Lehlbach wrote: Actually, David, I was agreeing with Bruce's opinion that the Type 17 doesn't allow one to, as it were, "create a complete GATC fleet." As a 1953 modeler, I have four of

Guys, Thanks to Dave Parker for sharing his research from Railway Age tabulations and subsequent analysis on the likely GATC production numbers for the first years of General American production,

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Hello Everyone, The RP Cyc #35 has arrived and is ready to ship at a discount. Contact me off list if interested. The book is expected to be out of print in a few weeks. Rails Unlimited Ted

Let me add a bit more to what Dave is saying. Attached is an Excel file of data gleaned from GATX 1898-1948 A History of the General American Transportation Corporation by Ralph C. Epstein. There is

Tony: I don't have all of the 1930s ORERs, but I have enough to be able to sketch out the basics of the GATC fleet growth via acquisition. Note that many of the mid-1930s ORERs did not have car

Dave Parker (in an informative post) wrote: And when quite a few smaller leasing companies went under, or changed business model, and sold their entire fleets to GATC. Richard Hendrickson tracked

Well, I do have some numbers that may or may not shed any light on the question of the abundance of GA 1917 design cars. First, a reminder that the 1917 design represented the advent of MCB/ARA Class

Photo: PRR Tank Car 454815 (1910) A photo from the Hagley Digital

Hi David, I don’t have any hard numbers. My statement was based on 3 things. First, lots of conversation with Richard Hendrickson about appropriate tank cars, where he pretty unequivocally said that

The Billboard Refrigerator Car book Tony mentioned has photos of both sides of a Cudahy car with the cleanser on one side and different advertising on the other. Jim Gates

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and

Bruce, Um, how do you attribute the GATC 1917-Design to being "a minority car?" I am curious, do you have any numbers to back that statement up? Best wishes, David Lehlbach Tangent Scale Models

Eric Hansmann said: "FYI, Tangent has released two tank sizes of these GATX type 17 prototypes; 8,000 and 10,000 gallon versions". Actually Eric, we have released three. Aside from the two

FYI, Tangent has released two tank sizes of these GATX type 17 prototypes; 8,000 and 10,000 gallon versions. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Thanks guys. It appears that the GATX fleet was much more varied than I initially thought. Reexamination of the various solid blocks of GATX tank cars in many consists is probably in order. -Phil

Phil, On a practical level, the cars modeled by Tangent are a 1917 design so they are technologically outdated by WWII, and that is also reflected in the radial course design. The later GATC (and

First is not GATX. It’s CGTX. The poster was asking about GATX. The Type 17’s would be in the tariff but I haven’t tried to figure out fleets. To me it’s a rabbit-hole that would never end

Phil, that may be possible, but I haven't tried it either. My comments pertained to RTRs and out-of-the-box kits. Even with the Tangent 1917 design cars, I don't have a good sense of how many of them