25.5k Tank Cars from Atlas Coming!

[ljudice]

Go to the Atlas site and check out the Spring Catalog - the new 25.5k tank cars (Vegetable Oil, petroleum, nasty chemicals) just announced in HO are coming to N in September

[SkipGear]

Here is the data sheet for the Atlas offering...

http://www.trinityrail.com/railcars/tank/pdfs/tank_25498.pdf

I was hoping for a TILX scheme:



That happens to be a 30K ethanol tanker.

http://www.trinityrail.com/railcars/tank/pdfs/tank_30145.pdf

[GaryHinshaw]

Outstanding!   (I would bet TILX is on their short list for a follow-up run.)

So, in the next 6 months: SD70Ace's ($$), SD70M's ($$), Dash-8's ($$), Atlas Thrall gons & tankers, DI container 5-packs (lots of them), DI spines (hah), IM BNSF Trinity reruns, RC bullkhead flats (??), ... oy.

[Walkercolt]

The 22K tankcar with the sway-back is what I've tried to make the MDC kinda-sorta look like they could be "stand-ins" for. The MDC's could end up on the swap-meet table along with various and sundry cars I have. It don't matter how much lipstick you put on a pig...it's still a pig.

[ljudice]

All we need now are modern LPG,  molten sulphur and sulphuric acid cars!   (and a few more)

[sundowner]

Excellent ;D

[lock4244]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

[3rdrail]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

Victor's been waiting for his Atlantic a helluva lot longer than you've been waiting for LPG tankers, and he's been a lot less rude about the wait.  :

[Mark5]

To answer my own question - introduced in 1986.

http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho25500tankcar.htm

[inkaneer]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

Quit your whining.  What's next a temper tantrum?

[lock4244]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

Quit your whining.  What's next a temper tantrum?

Close...

[lock4244]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

Victor's been waiting for his Atlantic a helluva lot longer than you've been waiting for LPG tankers, and he's been a lot less rude about the wait.  :

Based on what are you making this assumption, 3R? Since you've brought time into the equation, I've wanted them since around 1987/88 having seen many locally on CN, the black w/orange stripe in particular. So it has been a while 

[3rdrail]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

At least they're gonna be releasing some more undecorated C630's.

Victor's been waiting for his Atlantic a helluva lot longer than you've been waiting for LPG tankers, and he's been a lot less rude about the wait.  :

Based on what are you making this assumption, 3R? Since you've brought time into the equation, I've wanted them since around 1987/88 having seen many locally on CN, the black w/orange stripe in particular. So it has been a while 

Based on my first contact with "V Please Make an Atlantic M" on the old, old Atlas forum a decade ago, I'd say Victor's been pining for one for at least a quarter century. And he hasn't used phrases like "WTF" and "freaking" every time something is announced that doesn't include an Atlantic.

You know, years ago, if a modeler wanted something as bad as you seem to, he'd have scratchbuilt some by now.

[wcfn100]

WTF is with them!?  ???  How freaking long do we have to wait for something other than an ancient whalebelly LPG tankcar? I can't knock them for the quality of their tankers... just which ones they do 

Sounds like you should have really considered this before you made any modeling plans.


Jason

[cv_acr]

Based on what are you making this assumption, 3R? Since you've brought time into the equation, I've wanted them since around 1987/88 having seen many locally on CN, the black w/orange stripe in particular. So it has been a while 

The orange stripe dates back to 1980, it was a requirement on all Canadian service pressurized cars that came about after the Mississauga derailment of Nov. 1979. Eventually they realized that in a bad accident involving fire the paint would just burn off anyway and it wasn't useful (plus other cars that would come in from the USA) and it was dropped.
I haven't seen an orange stripe on a tank car in a while now, but within the last few years you could definately occasionally see older cars that still had it. Since I'll be modelling the early 1980s, I could use a propane car or two with the stripe to service one or two remote propane dealers on the eventual layout.