Here are photos for the cars appropriate for the era of the Real Steam Era List! Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) "O-59A 3-1940 Capitol Dome Delivery" Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) "1957 O-59 Repaint" Central Railroad

Tangent Scale Models announces the availability today of our latest run of Bethlehem 52’6” 70-Ton Gondolas in HO scale. Produced from 1937 until 1957, Bethlehem Steel Company released over 6,000 of th

Steve Hile said: "The closest SC&F kit is their 8000 gallon single dome car. But the issue there is the tank is a radial course tank and the SCCX car in the photo under discussion has longitudinal cou

New release for Small Business Saturday: our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon Insulated 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-r

Bob, This is a stunning shot, and the resolution is top notch to boot. 2 comments: 1. For the "all tank cars on your layout should be black" general statements, you can see all/most lettering on 12 ta

Thank you for pointing this out Bob! David Lehlbach

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, incl

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 oil-related p

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 non-insulat

Bob, This is a great link, thank you for sharing it. I know this is not your doing, but the 1940 date however is incorrect. The 10,000 gallon tank on the right was likely built in late 1951 or 1952. T

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of General American 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. As a reminder, this is the first plastic radial course tank offere

Dan, What you say is no doubt true, but the bigger takeaway is if you are washing factory-painted cars with weathering washes, put a "barrier" coat on FIRST that is a non-laquer product. In other word

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, plea

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

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. As a reminder, this is the first plastic radial course tank offered

Tangent Scale Models offers 18-inch 0.008" grab irons here: https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/product-category/unique-and-useful-parts/ We offer cheap first class shipping too - so you receive instan

Tim, that is a GATC 1917-design tank. David Lehlbach Tangent Scale Models

Bill, The answer is 100-Ton cars that are not relevant for this list. You will find discussion on the BBFCL ("Baby Boomer Freight Car List") and MFCL ("Modern") lists. David Lehlbach Tangent Scale Mod

Tim, The AESX car you posted is not an ACF build. It is a Pressed Steel Car Company build. The GRYX car is an ACF build, "type 27" underframe of early 1940s construction Best wishes, David Lehlbach ww