8k "Beercan" tank car suggestions

Very cool, I’d be in for a couple of them….if we could only get the cost of them at that time…..wow $2.25!!!!!

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Today I attended the Hamburg, PA train meet at the field house today. On the way out, I found some free older RMC issues with a interesting ad from Atlas ! For the next run of 8k tank cars can we get cars decorated like this?

Hooked, Hudson Bay Oil and Gas, Wyandotte Chemicals, Brea, etc.

IDT MTH ever decorated their 8k tank cars like these!

Photo by me from RMC Nov 1978.

I will pass the request to our Product Development guys.  The former MTH car is a different body then our N scale car, but we should be able to adapt the artwork.

As an inveterate beer- can collector, I say we heed the words of Captain Picard….“Make It So.”  

While I don't think they qualify as "beer can" cars, Lionel does have two Wyandotte Chemicals 8,000 gal. tank cars.  I have several of each.  They are sentimental to me having grown up in Wyandotte, Michigan.  We saw these almost every day when crossing the tracks on the way to the high school. 

Found this on another forun from 2001.

Beer cans generally haul liquids with a high density such as acids and heavier fluids as a longer car would only be half loaded before exeeding its capacity.
some examples of liquids which could be found in (and sometimes around) beer can shorties...
phosphoric acid (used in food industry, cleaning solutions, etc.)
hydrofluoric acid (glass etching, chemical refining)
hydrochloric acid (metal cleaning, plating)
sulfuric acid (many uses)
caustic soda (many uses in industrial processes)
salt brine (chemical refining)
heavy lube oils
Titainium Dioxide (used in paint and printing ink formulations)
resins and catalysts (plastics industry, adhesives and coatings)
clay slurry (paper industry)
sulfur slurry (used in several industrial processes including fertilizers)
fertilizer concentrate
pesticide concentrate
molasses
fatty acids & alcohols

I'd like to see another run of the Empire Oil (Wolf's Head) 8k tank cars (MTH did them probably 15+ years ago).

Andy

@CAPPilot posted:

Found this on another forun from 2001.

Beer cans generally haul liquids with a high density such as acids and heavier fluids as a longer car would only be half loaded before exeeding its capacity.
some examples of liquids which could be found in (and sometimes around) beer can shorties...
phosphoric acid (used in food industry, cleaning solutions, etc.)
hydrofluoric acid (glass etching, chemical refining)
hydrochloric acid (metal cleaning, plating)
sulfuric acid (many uses)
caustic soda (many uses in industrial processes)
salt brine (chemical refining)
heavy lube oils
Titainium Dioxide (used in paint and printing ink formulations)
resins and catalysts (plastics industry, adhesives and coatings)
clay slurry (paper industry)
sulfur slurry (used in several industrial processes including fertilizers)
fertilizer concentrate
pesticide concentrate
molasses
fatty acids & alcohols

Great list, very interesting.  I could go for one of each!  😆