Tank Cars

[Carey Williams]

Hello follow tankers ..

yes Bob appears to be (heavy) brass ..with brass cast frame .... quite nice construction.... and dwarfs the little 1/4" stuff ....(oh why did not Lee B Green win the scale war ? ) Here are some close ups of the tanker ... congratulations on being the father of 3
Cheers Carey

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[Carey Williams]

PS Bob any idea who made the 17/64ths tankers ???? thank you cheers Carey

[bob turner]

No idea. I will re- post mine. They came in a small collection I bought, bare brass, with Auel trucks.

[Carey Williams]

Hello follow tankers

Organizing the basement last night came across this fine tanker .......meticulously void of all that fru fru stuff like rivets and lap seams .... nice wood grain .."Kansas City Kits" ... aka "box of scrap lumber".
Cheers Carey

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[2railjon]

Hello follow tankers

Organizing the basement last night came across this fine tanker .......meticulously void of all that fru fru stuff like rivets and lap seams .... nice wood grain .."Kansas City Kits" ... aka "box of scrap lumber".
Cheers Carey

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[rex desilets]

Hello follow tankers

Organizing the basement last night came across this fine tanker .......meticulously void of all that fru fru stuff like rivets and lap seams .... nice wood grain .."Kansas City Kits" ... aka "box of scrap lumber".
Cheers Carey

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Why, it's a super-detaier's delight

[J. S. Bach]

All-welded construction!

[bob turner]

I am close to giving up on posting here. You might think that is a good thing, since you have seen all of my photos at least twice in different threads, and new scratchbuilts are occurring only about twice a year. But I keep getting these popups in the lower right side of the screen of models I have stored in digital form somewhere - today's was a Scale Craft tank car, cited as a "loving memory" or something. Not really, but it is a nice tank car.

You may note that about 80% of all photos in this thread have been cancelled in some fashion. We could fix that if we wanted to - a lot of nice tank cars out there, including my large string of Mobilgas (different thread).

Anyway, here is that popup tank:

[SWrailroader]

Bob,
That’s a really nice tank car and weathered making it unique. Your posts have always been inspiring and helpful to me.

I feel your frustration with the internet pop-ups. I switched to using DuckDuckGo for my main search engine instead of Safari, the default on most Apple devices It blocks most of the commercial crap. DuckDuckGo also tells you periodically how many trackers were blocked. The number blocked is both disturbing and frightening. There is so much data being collected out there I am tempted to start writing friends with snail mail.
Rob

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I am close to giving up on posting here. You might think that is a good thing, since you have seen all of my photos at least twice in different threads, and new scratchbuilts are occurring only about twice a year.

There are fewer and fewer scratchbuilders out there and fewer yet posting their builds anywhere.... I do maybe 1-2 a month, more if I get really inspired, but the availability and then cost of requisite detail parts is starting to felt.

But I keep getting these popups in the lower right side of the screen of models I have stored in digital form somewhere - today's was a Scale Craft tank car, cited as a "loving memory" or something. Not really, but it is a nice tank car.

That would seem a consequence of your hosting service; you get what you pay for or you get more in the way of intruding advertising

You may note that about 80% of all photos in this thread have been cancelled in some fashion. We could fix that if we wanted to - a lot of nice tank cars out there, including my large string of Mobilgas (different thread).

Again, a consequence of the various hosting services......

Anyway, here is that popup tank

Nice - I'm in favor of tank cars that feature a K brake!

[Dennis Holler]

Here are a couple of Lobaugh tank cars. Think I have posted these before as well, The Shell has the early cast bronze frame.

And here is one I was lucky to find when someone was auctioning off some Bill Lenoir stuff.

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Is that Lenoir car wrapped in foil of some type of wrapper?

[Dennis Holler]

Is that Lenoir car wrapped in foil of some type of wrapper?

I think it was a paper wrapper that he added the rivets and then lettered. it feels heavy enough to be a wood dowel tank like the Walthers cars were. I am not sure why it's all wrinkled up though, maybe moisture at some point? I have posted it here before and I think it was Sarge that linked to a picture of Bill's layout that possibly showed this tank car. Who knows. I also have a 4 bay metal hopper that he lettered as well.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think it was a paper wrapper that he added the rivets and then lettered. it feels heavy enough to be a wood dowel tank like the Walthers cars were. I am not sure why it's all wrinkled up though, maybe moisture at some point? I have posted it here before and I think it was Sarge that linked to a picture of Bill's layout that possibly showed this tank car. Who knows. I also have a 4 bay metal hopper that he lettered as well.

Probably a paper wrapper. Over time humidity will get into the paper and glue of that time to cause separation & wrinkling.

I've seen this on many of the older Walthers/Hawk 4 vat pickle cars that supplied a paper wrapper to go around the vats.

[bob turner]

Originally it was not clear to me what this was, and I have refrained from messing with it or its paint/decal. But it became clear at some point that it was a prewar Lobaugh 12,000 gal tank. It is one of my favorites, and I would easily trade a pristine 8000 gal prewar kit for another one of these:



Trucks are obviously not Lobaugh, but that would easily be remedied if I felt like it.

Here is another prewar Shell - Dennis and I have factory built and painted prewar Shell tanks!