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In a previous post, I made an addendum indicating that I had placed orders for three more MTH chrome tankers (that I had discovered late in my "gotta catch 'em all" moment). Well, all three are "on the property". Captions reference the photo above:

three chrometankers 09-2022

I thought taking these out of the box and photographing them on their styrofoam inserts would make it easier to view the cars rather than leaving them in the box behind a layer of cellophane and plastic bag  like the previous batch of seven. After transferring the photo to my computer, I saw that...chrome tanks are hard to photograph so the lettering/logos are visible...So, out-of-box closeups:

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30-73221 Pennsylvania. Funny story...from Trainz, Fedex showed it being picked up the same day as the order (I did it around 10am), then it sat in the Fedex pickup location in Ellenwood, GA for six days before jumping to Edison NJ SmartPost, then finally to my local FedEx hub in Yonkers...with a notation that it was going to be delivered Fedex Ground rather than USPS. While Ebay stated the delivery window was between 9/21 and 9/24, it was odd that the carrier essentially sat on it till it would arrive on the last day of a four-day delivery window.

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30-73222 Alaska

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30-73239 Killian's Irish Red.

So, after consulting my collection records, it would seem that I have about 36 chrome-plated tankers so far. That would include the 18 I have in my electronic records, a Lionel (6-26132), the two Williams prototypes from York, three starter-set cars I got from a MTH warehouse auction, two more I found on Ebay around the same time, seven I got from a dealer, and the three pictured here, also from Ebay.

That's gonna make some train when I put them all together. I think I'll use the two chrome-plated boxcars I have (K-Line TTOS 25th anniversary and MTH 25th anniversary) to divide the consist into railroad, petroleum and beverage roadnames

(Edit 09/26) Oh, and photographing chrome tankers is still difficult. I presume you'd need to shoot into a fully-lit enclosed white box (or outside on a sunny day) to eliminate dark reflections obscuring the markings.

---PCJ

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