Help with info on tank car

[JoeD]

Saw these on a research hunt and wanted some background...any feedback?

Joe

[Missaberoad]

Phosphorous service... its typically shipped suspended in (oil?) to prevent it from reacting with the atmosphere.
The angled shields on the top are to protect the inlets against being sheared off in a wreck.

T107 tank Built late 1980's to early 1990's (for the ACFX cars at least)

[Chris333]

Not a single window coach 

[JoeD]

Not a single window coach 

And I thought you were a good model builder...take a file and some sand paper....

LOL.

JOe

[delamaize]

Not a single window coach 

And I thought you were a good model builder...take a file and some sand paper....

[peteski]

Joe is keeping the single-window coach under tight wraps. There won't be any pre-announcement - it will just quietly  show up one month as a new release!   

[C855B]

Hey, Joe -

I find these cars fascinating as well. Here are a handful of detail shots while waiting at a crossing a couple of years ago: http://www.everywherewest.com/Phosphorus%20Car/

[basementcalling]

Saw these on a research hunt and wanted some background...any feedback?

Joe

I'm sorry but Arnold Schwarzenegger has prototype commentary here.

These cars look like a bad mutation from a 1930s style tank car.

[Robbman]

Saw these on a research hunt and wanted some background...any feedback?

Joe

Yes... do these instead:



Or if you REALLY want to do a tankcar:

[C855B]

Yes... do these instead:
...
Or if you REALLY want to do a tankcar:
...

I love both of these. CORX = Coor's Beer. That's a wort car. Used to come through here all the time. Can't justify either in my modeling period, but a big dose of artistic license could make either happen on my layout.

[Lenny53]

Hot asphalt

[tankcar]

He [ Guests cannot view attachments ] re,s a early Phosphorus tank car I scratched. It was the smallest of the rail whales, multi-axle tank cars. I tried twice to do the big photo, but it refused to take.

Regards, Bobby