G'Day All,

As a modeler who models late 1979, I'm always on the lookout for steam era kits that will fit into my era. So I got pretty excited when I picked up a couple of Sunshine kits for the Warren/Columbian 8,000 gal tankcars at a show in Pittsburgh last November.

http://sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun36b.pdf

I recently came across these cars that appear to be near matches for the Sunshine kits, but as I'm not an expert on steam era tankcars, I could use some confirmation that these are indeed insulated tankcars that match the kits.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acfx4839akg.jpg

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2012552

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1250098

Thanks in advance,

Darrall Swift
Modeling the BN\GN\MILW in North central Montana (Great Falls to Shelby) Circa: Fall of 1979

Darrall Swift wrote:

As a modeler who models late 1979, I'm always on the lookout for steam era kits that will fit into my era. So I got pretty excited when I picked up a couple of Sunshine kits for the Warren/Columbian 8,000 gal tankcars at a show in Pittsburgh last November.

I recently came across these cars that appear to be near matches for the Sunshine kits, but as I'm not an expert on steam era tankcars, I could use some confirmation that these are indeed insulated tankcars that match the kits.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acfx4839akg.jpg
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2012552
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1250098

Depends a bit on what you mean by "match," but no, I'd say none of the photos you cite show the same car body. Two reasons for saying so: tank aspect ratio (length to diameter) is different, and dome-top fittings are quite different from the Sunshine car. However, the Warren kit does match the prototype photo of WRNX 204 in Ed Kaminski's tank car book.

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On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, doswift wrote:

As a modeler who models late 1979, I'm always on the lookout for
steam era kits that will fit into my era. So I got pretty excited
when I picked up a couple of Sunshine kits for the Warren/Columbian
8,000 gal tankcars at a show in Pittsburgh last November.

http://sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun36b.pdf

I recently came across these cars that appear to be near matches
for the Sunshine kits, but as I'm not an expert on steam era
tankcars, I could use some confirmation that these are indeed
insulated tankcars that match the kits.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acfx4839akg.jpg

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2012552

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1250098

ACFX 4839 appears to be very close to the Warren and Columbian cars
modeled by Sunshine. The AESX cars have later all-welded underframes
and different vents etc. on the domes, as they were used for the
shipment of corn oil.

Richard Hendrickson