What's your favorite Tank Car?

MTH / RailKing  •  Released this Wyandotte Chemical tank car about two weeks ago. Wyandotte Chemical is a local company in Wyandotte, Michigan. Part of BASF Company.

I always like to add, local road names to my layout.

Wyandotte Terminal Railroad - Click here

Gary

Ha,ha.  I have a whole string of Iron City beer tank cars--Olde Frothingslosh,IC Light,and Iron City beer.

Then would come my Union Texas Petroleum  tanker and my Koppers tanker.

Norm

I like that Death Valley RR one of MWB's...I think that was a real RR, so guess that is a model of a prototype?  Never seen a book on that road or others in that part of Calif.  Tankcars I want are plain-Jane black UTLX and GATX, as well as that for Frontier Oil, but don't want to have to kit-build a string, as others have done to get black ones.

K-Line offered a matched pair of T&P tank cars about 15 years ago.  Ours is on our layout.  At one time I had a Weaver PRR brown tank car with a very flimsy rail the length of the car.  My wife told me to get rid of it when she found it was a gift from a girl friend(pre second wife) in Cincinnati who bought it at Davis Trains.  Bye, bye tank car.  John

I forgot that I have these on order from Atlas. "Linden, NJ" .... my home town ... printed on them. These will be my new  favorite tank car when they arrive later this year.

Of course, GAF ... in addition to the other two chemical plants that made up the Linden waterfront, DuPont and American Cynamid .... have closed up. Just polluted land left.

We need a basic black 8000 gallon tank car, Does not matter if it is UTLX,  GATX or

American car, I will buy  a gazillion of them. 

mwb posted:

There is of course the Reprocessed Lugubrium unit tank car....

Wow, I recognized the word as Latin, but I had to look it up. I assume you have people either not getting the joke (and never thinking to ask) or asking what the deal is with that name? I love a good "stop and think" and consider myself very well-read, but I had to dig really deep to get this one.

Several people have mentioned the Lionel 6315 Gulf thank car. Does anyone have a prototype photo of that car that has the black band in the center of the orange car, like the Hooker cars? Is it a prototype paint scheme?

My first ever

My my second, a hand me down

The one I sought to purchase to replace my original, traded off long ago to Gramps for the early gunfighter car.

My present favorite is a toy, that just happens to stay on the rails well enough to be good for MOW around here.

My oldest....

and my joke, because it's not just a another tank on a flat car.

With wheels, isn't it a "tank-car" 

Hey I left Sea Monkey aquarium cars out of it  

Love, loooove Atlas' 17600 corn syrup tank cars! They are fantastic, I think. I'm putting together a 30-40 car train of these beauties.

Also like the latest european modern tanks by MTH, for the price they are great!

I picked up a Lionel 2755 pre-war tank car today. It has a gray metal tank, no plastic with box couplers. Dirty but decent Sunoco decals. I have a silver one too. i worked for Wyandotte Chemicals  before BASF bought them and I want one of their tank cars. Would like a Penn Salt car too. They had a plant years ago in the Allegheny valley  at Natrona. That is where the town name come from.

The Little RR that could

Here is three tank cars!