Russian Tanks!! Russian Tanks!!
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Large lettering on the side says:
огнеопасно бензиновая = ogneopasno benzinovaya = flammable gasoline Robert Simpson |
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ed_mines
you're welcome! |
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Ken,
I think that what you are looking at is the dome platform. Note that the nearer cars have the manway dome at the far end and no platforms on the visible side. The car in question however has the manway at the near end dome, and a dome platform under that dome. There appears to be some sort of step further down as well. Note that on the tank car being moved to the truck, you can see the dome platform on the far left side, just above the cab of the crane. Note too that the dome with the platform also has a grab iron, probably only on that side.
Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of akerboomk <ken-akerboom@...>
In the first picture (with the tanks in the gondolas) |
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My bad. Now I see the lumps you are talking about. Don't know what they are. Sorry. Doug Paasch On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 7:21 AM Doug Paasch <drpaasch@...> wrote:
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I think you're looking at street lights or floodlights beyond the string of tankers. Look closer. There's a string of poles out yonder. Doug Paasch On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 6:58 AM akerboomk <ken-akerboom@...> wrote: In the first picture (with the tanks in the gondolas) |
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akerboomk
In the first picture (with the tanks in the gondolas)
The 4th, 6th, and 7th car in the gondolas appear to have a "widget" sticking out of the should of the tank. I don't see any sign of this in the other photos. Also something (step?) about the CL of the tank. Any idea what it is? (too blurry for me to make anything out) Part of tank? Part of hold-down? -- Ken Akerboom |
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Philip Dove
Makes a change from using old box cars as sheds. |
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Charles Happel
Tanks for the memories! “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” Mark Twain Chuck Happel
On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 07:58:46 AM EDT, Bill Parks via groups.io <bparks_43@...> wrote:
Bob - You got me on this one. When I first read this, I didn't pick up on the word "car" between "tank" and "bodies" and my brain was trying to figure out why/how you would turn the military armor type of tank body into a vacuum., and what that had to do with steam era freight cars. That's what I get for reading things before caffeine. :) I do the fact that they didn't even repaint them or try to hide what they were originally built for. -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida |
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Bob -
You got me on this one. When I first read this, I didn't pick up on the word "car" between "tank" and "bodies" and my brain was trying to figure out why/how you would turn the military armor type of tank body into a vacuum, and what that had to do with steam era freight cars. That's what I get for reading things before caffeine. :) I do like the fact that they didn't even repaint them or try to hide what they were originally built for. -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida |
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Gerry Fitzgerald
Well you don't see that everyday.
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Dennis Storzek
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 05:52 PM, Bob Chaparro wrote:
The tank car bodies were acquired from supplies intended for the USSR during the World War Two.These appear to be the same design as the USATC delivered to Europe after the war. Note the two domes, one with no hatch or safety valves. The loading gauge is so small in Europe that a standard NA tank won't fit, so they divided the required expansion capacity between two domes. Dennis Storzek |
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Russian Tanks!! Russian Tanks!! No, I’m not Putin you on. These are photos from the Ann Arbor District Library taken in 1946 and 1947. The tank car bodies were acquired from supplies intended for the USSR during the World War Two. They were converted into vacuum tanks for University of Michigan’s Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the Willow Run Laboratories. The tanks were pumped free of air to create the vacuum which draws air through the supersonic wind tunnel. The air, which technicians sought to get up to speeds of 7,000 miles per hour, took only 15 seconds to pass through the tunnel. https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N014_0031_002.jpg https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N036_0685_004.jpg https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N036_0685_005.jpg Click on the photos to enlarge them. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA |
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