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Photo: Many Sinclair Tank Cars (Circa 1917-1918)

Bob Chaparro
 

Photo: Many Sinclair Tank Cars (Circa 1917-1918)

Photo from the National Archives:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31488886

Scroll to enlarge the photo.

A “thank you” to Claus Schlund for alerting me to the National Archives as a photo source.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
 

Hi Bob and List Members,


Great images!


In the one link referenced below, there is a cut of four cars on the rightmost track, starting with car SDRX 1033. Questions...


(1) The car sez "FLUX". What does that mean in this context?


(2) The two cars in the cut furthest from the camera are frames with no tank. So is this the repair track?



TIA


Claus Schlund







On 30-Sep-22 12:53, Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote:

Photo: Many Sinclair Tank Cars (Circa 1917-1918)

Photo from the National Archives:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31488886

Scroll to enlarge the photo.

A “thank you” to Claus Schlund for alerting me to the National Archives as a photo source.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

Tim O'Connor
 

Claus

Google is your friend. FLUX in this context refers to an oil product used with/for asphalt.

Frames with no tank ! Now that's something I've never seen before ! :-)


On 9/30/2022 3:42 PM, Claus Schlund wrote:

Hi Bob and List Members,

Great images!

In the one link referenced below, there is a cut of four cars on the rightmost track, starting with car SDRX 1033. Questions...

(1) The car sez "FLUX". What does that mean in this context?

(2) The two cars in the cut furthest from the camera are frames with no tank. So is this the repair track?


--
Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

Bill Parks
 

Car #4646 has a white band around it's dome.  I assume this means something.  Does anyone know what?

Thanks

--
Bill Parks
Cumming, GA
Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

akerboomk
 

RE: White band: there's at least 4 other cars with white bands on their domes
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Ken Akerboom

Tim O'Connor
 


It's the only one that looks freshly painted -- may be some kind of safety experiment? The Santa Fe
used color coded stripes on company tank cars for different cargos.



On 9/30/2022 6:25 PM, Bill Parks via groups.io wrote:

Car #4646 has a white band around it's dome.  I assume this means something.  Does anyone know what?

Thanks

--
Bill Parks

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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

Schleigh Mike
 

Hi Bill & Group!

New Sinclair tank cars were delivered from builders with the dome ring.  Later Sinclair used four silver 'dots' painted on the domes.  The conventional wisdom believes the dots were intended to offer ready identification of their cars when mixed in trains and cuts.  Few other tankers were so marked.  It is easy to think the rings served the same purpose in earlier times.  The dots and the large "SINCLAIR" billboard lettering began in the late twenties and the rings began to disappear thereafter.

Great photo!

Regards from Mike Schleigh in Western Penna.

On Friday, September 30, 2022, 06:25:07 PM EDT, Bill Parks via groups.io <bparks_43@...> wrote:


Car #4646 has a white band around it's dome.  I assume this means something.  Does anyone know what?

Thanks

--
Bill Parks
Cumming, GA
Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

Bill Parks
 

Mike - 

Thanks for the info.  That certainly makes sense.

--
Bill Parks
Cumming, GA
Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

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