A little more background on Phenol. I worked with Phenol years ago at Essex Magnet Wire. It’s a dangerous chemical causing burns and is absorbed through the skin, and exposure to a lot can be fatal. T

Interesting passenger car in the foreground.

I agree, the old Kadde truck springs look poor. Kadee makes a HGC (high gravity compound) version of this truck where the springs are solid, # 571 or 1571 with the semi scale wheels. They look much be

I’m going back to the brass ‘manuta’ gon model picture.

The brass model is more like the ACL phosphate car that Ambroid made a model of in their one-in-5000 kit line in the late 1950’s-early 1960’s:

The tanks are US M3 Lee tanks. They were built late 1941 to the end of 1942. They began to be replaced by the better M4 Sherman tanks (a lot were sold to the British). The Lee was not a very good tank

Nice picture. Note the Andrews U section trucks with a snubber in place of one of the springs on each truck.

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 to

No, that was Methyl Isocyanate in Bophal. Nevertheless Hydrogen Cyanide is nasty.

Or could it be the cars are the same and each car only had the one bulkhead end? Not sure why only one end but otherwise the cars and tanks do appear Similar.

Not sure if it is correct for your cars, but Westerfield makes a Bettendorf fish belly single I beam underframe for Milwaukee cars, kit 12053. If it is correct perhaps a call to Andrew Dahm at Westerf