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Chris333

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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #30 on: June 01, 2012, 05:16:32 AM »
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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #31 on: June 01, 2012, 01:48:14 PM »
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Quote from: peteski on May 31, 2012, 09:44:13 PM
...I remember one of the cars is labeled as carrying lard. I didn't think lard was that heavy.  :facepalm:

Lard just adds weight to other things, like people.


Hmm... Kiz is a prime
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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #32 on: June 01, 2012, 02:06:59 PM »
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There was a Chevron Chemicals plant in Elma, WA that had strings of these cars on a track off of the mainline (BN Branch) going into the plant some years back.


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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #33 on: June 01, 2012, 04:46:22 PM »
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Quote from: Kisatchie on May 31, 2012, 01:41:47 PM
Roundhouse/Model Die Casting also made one very close to the Atlas version. I have both kinds, 54 to be exact, and I don't know what possessed me to buy so many.


Hmm... because they were
there...?


Because it takes at least that many just to be seen behind the engine!
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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #34 on: June 05, 2012, 01:23:25 AM »
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  Who Knows ,who cares. Getting late into the game,because they are so cute in a train at a show. Hey I gave most of mine away (yes gave) execpt for a couple of company names I really liked. I did see them in trains out here in the West,but none ever were at our our local refineries,which stiil get alot of those long black ,grafitted,cigar shaped thingies. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake,Utah.
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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2012, 02:09:14 PM »
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I see modern versions come by on the CSX line from time to time while waiting for a signal. Not sure who uses them out near Boston, or perhaps they are interchanged with one of the many RR's out there. (PW, PAS, ect)
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Re: Why Are Beercan Tank Cars So Small?
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