Tangent December: GATC 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car
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Tangent Scale Models
Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of HO scale General American 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. As a reminder, this is the first plastic radial course tank offered in HO plastic! (Radial course means the tank’s steel panels overlap each other, looking like “stairsteps”).
By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-related products was sharply increasing thanks to the combination of war-related demands as well as demands from home. In order to move oil and new consumer products, tank car producers introduced new car designs. In 1917 General American Tank Car introduced a new general service 10,000 gallon non-insulated tank car. Built in East Chicago, IN, these cars were easily identifiable by their circumferential rivets that surrounded the tank body, with notably different heights between the courses. These “radial course” tank cars utilized steel bolster plates that rise up vertically to hold the tank in place, complete with a “web” section behind to minimize steel consumption. At a time of fairly monochromatic box cars plying the rails, most consumable products and oil shippers proudly displayed their company markings on the tanks. This car design was no exception, with Sinclair being a dominant purchaser of tank cars of this type. Additionally, many smaller oil shippers had fleets of these cars during the oil boom years. Finally, as many oil businesses failed, the cars ended up back with GATC and were restenciled with new owner markings and were placed back into service for a new owner. Between Sinclair, Sunburst Refining, and other schemes, think of this as one of the first “crude oil” tank cars of consequence. Forget boring present day tanks. These cars were the most prolific tank cars built during the first tank car building boom, and were found everywhere from 1917 to 1970.
The Tangent Scale Models GATC 1917-Design 10,000 Gallon General Service Tank Car is a highly-detailed tank car model that includes details accurate for each paint scheme, including KC- or AB-brake variations, with or without Cardwell draft sill springs, and different hand brakes. Other visually-distinctive details for our models include the “see through” bolster section, circumferential rivets, and differing course heights. Our RTR models include correct “true-to-life” colors and “hyper-accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement. Finally, our scale replicas operate as well as they look, equipped with free-rolling all-metal wheels and Kadee® scale couplers, meaning our models are truly ready to run.
Our new ready to operate replicas are in stock and available for sale NOW. That’s right, no preorders! Click here for more!
These replicas will certainly be eye-catchers on your layout! Check out the radial courses – they look like nothing else in HO! Our December 2022 release includes the following eight RTR paint schemes:
- IOX "Imperial Oil Limited" 1918+ is the earliest tank car from our 2022 release, and it is a black car with white stenciling. This car is lettered for “Imperial Oil Limited” which was initially part of Standard Oil before the break-up in 1911. At the time of the break-up Imperial Oil was transferred to Jersey Standard Oil, which was later renamed to Exxon. This car has lots of stenciling on it, and includes imperial gallonages on the ends of the car, but also has “United States Safety Appliances Standard” lettering. Our IOX "Imperial Oil Limited" replicas come with era-correct K-brakes and they are available in four different road numbers.
- UOCX "Union Oil of California" 1937+ represents a model from one of the more prolific buyers of GATC-built tank cars, Union Oil of California. They had a large fleet of tank cars, many of which were adorned with large “Union Oil Company” and “Los Angeles” stenciling. These specific prototype models show a build date of 1920 and paint dates of 1937. The underframe has lots of stenciling as well, including “Built 10-20 by General American Tank Car Corporation Warren Ohio Shops.” Cool stuff! Also, these cars were roamers! Several Union Oil of California tank car photos have been taken in Alaska on the Alaska Railroad! Our UOCX " Union Oil of California" replicas come assembled with era-correct K-brakes and they are available with twelve different road numbers.
- BMX "Barrett Tarvia" 1938+ is a tank car with beautiful “The Barrett Company” and “Tarvia – Good Roads At Low Cost” graphics on the side of the black tank body. The tank’s other lettering shows a 1917 car build date. The underframe also has white stenciling on black paint, including the distinctive “Shipper’s Car Line” “Milton Plant” repaired-painted block of stenciling. Our BMX "Barrett Tarvia" 1938+ replicas come with era-correct K-brakes and they are available with your choice of six different road numbers.
- ARR "Alaska Railroad" 1955+ is a tank car offering that many of you have asked for over the years. This tank car is painted in the Alaska Railroad’s silver tank paint scheme with black lettering, with paint and brake dates of 1955. The tank’s other lettering shows a 1919 car build date. The underframe is black with white stenciling. These cars were in various services however the primary service for the fleet was to move oil from North Pole to Anchorage. Our Alaska Railroad 1955+ replicas come with era-correct AB-brakes and they are available in six different road numbers.
- HMHX "Black Lease" 1963+ is a great 1960s-era “lease” car you can use on your layout – a black tank car with white stenciling. It is stenciled for the “Tank Car Corporation of America” with 1963 paint and brake stencil dates. These cars show a lease stencil for “Leased to National Molasses Company.” Our HMHX "Black Lease" replicas come with era-correct AB-brakes and they are available in four different road numbers.
- ACDX "Allied Chemical" 1964+ (Rerun) is a prototype repaint scheme that was applied in 1964 and represents an offering for the 1960s modelers out there. The prototype photo on our website shows this car in service in 1968 on the east coast. This scheme wears the red and white Allied Chemical logo that is nicely applied to the rounded contours of the tank. The car stenciling includes separate stencil instances for “Chemicals” and “Plastics Division.” As always, this scheme comes directly from a prototype car photo that matches our model. Our Allied Chemical 1964+ cars come with era-correct AB-brakes and are available in two road numbers (rerun from 2020).
- D&RGW "Company Service" 1970+ is a black tank car that has been repainted by DRGW with “MW” stencils, which means a car that is dedicated for company Maintenance of Way service. DRGW also added a yellow rectangular box that says “Freight Car Journal Oil Pueblo” which designates it exact service. The tank car also has the addition of ACI label, something DRGW wanted to track the cars as they move around the DRGW freight network. These cars include a 1962 paint date on the frame, which we have duplicated as a patch. These cars are painted with black paint-out stencil blocks for the road number and other associated paint outs, to reflect the multiple years of changes made to these cars. Our DRGW Company Service replicas come with era-correct AB-brakes and they are available in four different road numbers.
- NdeM "MOW Silver" 1974+ is a railroad-repainted MoW tank car. The “Nacionales de Mexico” railroad repainted this tank car into a distinctive silver paint scheme with black ends. The car has large “Exclusivo Servicio Diesel Compania” stenciling on the side, indicating usage for diesel fuel service. Need to fuel those GP38s! Amazingly, this car retained its K-brake system. We offer this car in one exactly accurate road number, 51063.
- Undecorated RTR Black cars are ready for decaling! This production includes RTR cars with the AB brake system.
- Undecorated Unpainted Kits are available as well. When folks claim that “no one” makes kits anymore, well, here they are. These are ready for building or kitbashing, and painting / decaling. Great for those who desire to build their own. This run of kits come with parts for either an AB- or a K-brake configuration.
Features for these awesome replicas include: - Circumferential riveted tank body and riveted underframe (count ‘em, there are many!) - Radial course tank body – note the “stairstep” appearance! - All-new underframe for the GATC 1917-design - “See-through” cast knee above the bolsters - Accurate dome appliances - Dimensionally-correct hazardous placards with accurate hole detail - Separately applied tank handrail - Separately applied tank strap detail - KC- or AB- brake variations depending on the prototype car - Inclusion of Cardwell draft sill springs depending on the prototype car, otherwise “oval” frame openings where the springs were removed - Different hand brake appliance options depending on the prototype car - Highly correct “true to life” colors - “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement, including lettering applied to the underframe and air reservoir - Durable wire grab irons and coupler lift bars - Separate air hoses - “Near-scale” draft gear box with side detail - Kadee® “scale-head” couplers - CNC-machined 33” wheels in high-quality Tangent Scale Models ASF cast steel truck with spring plank and with separate brake beams - Replacement semi-scale wheels available separately from Tangent - Multiple road numbers for each scheme - these cars often traveled in "groups" of more than one - Recommended age 14 years and older
Don’t miss out on the Tangent Scale Models General American 10,000 gallon 1917-design radial course tank car! Just like its prototype, this car will stand out on any layout situated from 1917 to approximately 1970, and they went everywhere!
Pricing for RTR models is $46.95. High-resolution images showing these fine replicas are available at www.tangentscalemodels.com and our site also includes prototype images for your reference as well.
That wraps up our update for today, and thank you for supporting the family-owned businesses in our industry!
David Lehlbach Tangent Scale Models |
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Eric Thur
David,
Just a comment on the offerings. Excellent Models BTW, but only Three of the Eight schemes offered can be used correctly for Steam Era, Two of the three (Imperial and Union Oil) are pretty much West Coast based. The only car that could be used on most on Eastern and Mid-West Steam Era Layout's is your BMX “Barrett Tarvia” 1938+ Still great work as usual from Tangent. Eric Thur |
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Nelson Moyer
Would these car have been converted to AB brakes at some point in the 1950s? I would buy one with AB brakes.
Nelson Moyer
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:33 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Tangent December: GATC 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car
David,
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Excellent offerings. You can’t please all the people all the time, but this line pleases me. Backdating the Barrett will be fun and will have a so much better result than a Sunshine kit (unless you’re named Nelson and I am not anywhere close to that skill level).
So tanks a lot! I model North Carolina Piedmont in the Depression and good roads are needed! -- ____________________________ David Bott, modeling the A&Y in '34 |
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Nelson Moyer
You flatter me, but in the interest of full transparency and disclosure, I sold five Sunshine tank car kits after RCW came out with their tank car kits. I’ve build one F&C, two SC&F, and six RCW tank car kits – no Sunshine.
Nelson Moyer
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On Behalf Of A&Y Dave in MD
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 7:44 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Tangent December: GATC 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car
Excellent offerings. You can’t please all the people all the time, but this line pleases me. Backdating the Barrett will be fun and will have a so much better result than a Sunshine kit (unless you’re named Nelson and I am not anywhere
close to that skill level).
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Dave Parker
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:33 PM, <erict1361@...> wrote:
Excellent Models BTW, but only Three of the Eight schemes offered can be used correctly for Steam Era, Two of the three (Imperial and Union Oil) are pretty much West Coast based. The only car that could be used on most on Eastern and Mid-West Steam Era Layout's is your BMX “Barrett Tarvia” 1938+I don't understand the basis of this complaint. First, I get 4 out of 8 as being steam-ear appropriate, although I would agree that the Alaska car might be a bit specialized geographically. But if you look at prior 1917-design non-insulated offerings, you'll see that 4/4 of the 10-kgal cars, and 12/13 of the 8-kgal cars, were steam-era cars. And, they included UTLX, GATX, and Sinclair cars. What could be more universally useful than those? Having worked with David on some of the artwork for these cars, I can also say that it's not a matter of picking a few schemes from a much larger pool of possible ones. David is committed to very detailed and prototypical accurate stenciling. The limiting factor, especially for the pre-WWII cars, is photographs of sufficient quality to allow accurate reproduction of the lettering. I have scoured the earth for Barrett photos, and the one of BMX 4567 that forms the basis for this release is the only one good enough for Tangent's purposes in either the 8- or 10-kgal size. When I look at Tangent's offerings overall, it's clear that the business model focuses primarily on post-1960 freight cars. I for one am extremely grateful for the excellent tank-car models that are of use for our era.. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA |
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Kemal Mumcu
Imperial Oil would have been Canada wide, on both coasts. I count roughly 450 cars of this type from the IOX roster.
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lsittler
Question Dave, I’ve written David at Tangent but perhaps you may know the
answer. I see that Tangent is now offering an HMHX “Black Lease” car leased to
National Molasses Company. Was this car used to haul molasses? I always
thought an insulated car would be used for that commodity. Also,if so, since I
model 1961 not 1963, was the paint scheme and lessee the same 2 years earlier? I
could simply change the stencil if so. Thanks. Les Sittler
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1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car On
Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:33 PM, <erict1361@...> wrote: Excellent Models BTW, but only Three of the Eight schemes offered can be used correctly for Steam Era, Two of the three (Imperial and Union Oil) are pretty much West Coast based. The only car that could be used on most on Eastern and Mid-West Steam Era Layout's is your BMX “Barrett Tarvia” 1938+I don't understand the basis of this complaint. First, I get 4 out of 8 as being steam-ear appropriate, although I would agree that the Alaska car might be a bit specialized geographically. But if you look at prior 1917-design non-insulated offerings, you'll see that 4/4 of the 10-kgal cars, and 12/13 of the 8-kgal cars, were steam-era cars. And, they included UTLX, GATX, and Sinclair cars. What could be more universally useful than those? Having worked with David on some of the artwork for these cars, I can also say that it's not a matter of picking a few schemes from a much larger pool of possible ones. David is committed to very detailed and prototypical accurate stenciling. The limiting factor, especially for the pre-WWII cars, is photographs of sufficient quality to allow accurate reproduction of the lettering. I have scoured the earth for Barrett photos, and the one of BMX 4567 that forms the basis for this release is the only one good enough for Tangent's purposes in either the 8- or 10-kgal size. When I look at Tangent's offerings overall, it's clear that the business model focuses primarily on post-1960 freight cars. I for one am extremely grateful for the excellent tank-car models that are of use for our era.. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA |
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Insulated cars were definitely NOT necessary for liquid sugars of any kind. But I think they usually had steam heating pipes inside. Molasses, or a sort of sugar liquor (not for humans) can be produced from wood as well. The Superwood plant in Duluth shipped out loads in tank cars. On 12/11/2022 2:23 PM, lsittler wrote:
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Bill Parks
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:33 PM, <erict1361@...> wrote:
The only car that could be used on most on Eastern and Mid-West Steam Era Layout's is your BMX “Barrett Tarvia” 1938+From what I can find on-line, Barrett had operations in New York and Illinois. Did they also have operations in the South? If not, would their cars be found on southeastern railroads? -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida |
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Dave Parker
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:07 PM, Bill Parks wrote:
From what I can find on-line, Barrett had operations in New York and Illinois. Did they also have operations in the South? If not, would their cars be found on southeastern railroads?This is a snippet from my Hindsight clinic handout from January, 2021:  For my money, you can justify a Barrett car just about anywhere, although I suspect they were most common in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions. The full handout is in the Files section of the Hindsight groups.io page, uploaded 1-8-21. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA |
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John Riddell
From 1916 through 1919 Imperial Oil turned to General American Transportation Corporation (GATC) to build their cars.
The new Tangent model for IOX 5481 represents one of 100 five-radial- course tank cars (IOX 5400-5499) built in July 1918 by General American Corp. Beginning between mid-1936 and mid-1937 some of these IOX cars was relettered COBX. By mid-1944 no cars remained lettered for IOX. Beginning in late1949 most cars were relettered TCLX. Between 1952 and 1960 these cars were renumbered to UTLX 54400-54496. IOX 5481 became UTLX 54478.
An identical series of 100 cars was built in February-March 1919 by General American (IOX 5500-5599). Beginning between mid-1935 and mid-1936 many of these IOX cars were relettered TCLX. Beginning between mid-1936 and mid1937 some of these cars were relettered COBX. By mid 1944 no IOX lettered cars remained. Between 1952 and 1960 these car were renumbered to UTLX 26192-26286.
The Imperial oil tank car fleet consisted of 1,600 cars in October 1926 and 1,118 in January 1939. The large tank car fleet of Imperial Oil Limited served the Canadian market country-wide. Rarely if ever would an IOX car cross the border to the US.
Much of the above data is from Ian Cranstone’s detailed studies of ORERs.
John Riddell
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Fred Jansz
Since I model Quincy, CA, I ordered two Union cars because Union had a hub in Quincy, CA. Associated, Shell and Standard all had a delivery point in Quincy too. AOX car is offered by F&C. Still on the lookout for Shell and Standard steam era cars.
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Tony Thompson
Fred Jansz wrote:Um, you do know that Standard dealers were served by UTLX cars? There’s lots of those available, some accurate. Tony Thompson tony@... |
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midrly
The Imperial Oil cars were owned by Standard Oil's Canadian subsidiary. Imperial Oil had then and now a refinery in Sarnia, Ontario. Photos of Imperial Oil cars bearing this lettering date from the builders to the 1940's and later. Steve Lucas |
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Fred Jansz
Hello Tony,
good to hear. No, I wasn't aware of that fact. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about tank cars, recently discovered your excellent blog posts! So thank you for the tip in the right direction. The good thing is I own 2 Tangent UTLX cars. I hope one of the resin guys will consider a Shell car in the near future... cheers, Fred Jansz |
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Proto 2000 made an accurate Shell tank car. SCCX - I think - was the reporting mark. On 12/13/2022 2:31 AM, Fred Jansz
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Eric Hansmann
I think they also produced some Shell tank cars with RPX marks, too.
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Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN On Dec 13, 2022, at 7:47 AM, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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Eric Thur
Dave & Group,
Sorry if I was mis understood by my comment. It was in no means a complaint. I have no issues with Tangent and own quite a few of their models. I just made a statement that most of the modelers in this group model Steam era 1920's thru 1955. I agree that the new scheme selection was well thought out, and I am always glad to see any New HO Freight car model released. But it would have been nice to have one or two of the original release paint schemes re-run: Cities Service, Sinclair, GATX, Deep Rock, Union Starch and UTLX cars. Steam Era modelers need these models, since Sunshine no longer exists. I am sure that many 1960's and 1970's Modelers will want the new models. But some of us, myself included, did Not get a chance to purchase the first run, because they sold out so quickly. What I am saying basically is: nice job on the new models, but a couple more common schemes, UTLX, GATX, Sinclar etc. would have sweetened the mix, so to speak. Eric Thur |
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Eric. You realize many of the schemes you are asking for were released in October on 8k tanks right.
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