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I've been too involved with my CZ train, so I decided to review my other dream consist: the 17,600 tank train. I've only gathered 20 of these beauties, and I intend to get around 50 to make for a spectacular train. Many paint schemes have been produced, so if you love Atlas tanks please share them here.

 

I think these cars are wonderful, I love the sense of weight they have, how Atlas faithfully reproduced the bent-barrel and seam jackets and how busy the under frame is. I just wish they would consider offering more than 4 road numbers so we could have a more consistent train. It would also be nice, if Atlas invested in new dome configurations so we could have some variety.

 

It's tempting for me to get their new 25,000 tanks, but I think a consistent long string of the 17,600 cars would look better in the end.

 

In their price range these are the absolute best!

 

 

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Nice tank train!! I have 12 25,500's& wish also Atlas would come up with either more car no's or a renumbering system. Many times a car out of a 4 car set is sold out,but the other 3 remain for sale,so the solution there would be to buy a remaining car or cars in the series & change the numbers. I'm having that problem with my 4750&5161 grain hoppers.

 

Thanks again for the photos&input.

 

Al Hummel

Last edited by Rich Melvin

Martin,

Here are some photos of the Atlas-O, 2-rail 17,360 gallon Chlorine cars. I sold them 2 years ago to buy more intermodal models. To the extent I still remember when I compared models through the box at hobby shops many years ago, it seemed like the 17,600 gallon corn syrup cars were fatter & shorter than the Chlorine cars.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

 

 
Originally Posted by Martin H:

Great photography!!  You make me want to go out and buy some.

 

What do you think of the Atlas 17,360 "chlorine" cars?  Do they compare favorably to these corn syrup cars, in terms of detail and accuracy?

 

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Originally Posted by naveenrajan:

Martin,

Here are some photos of the Atlas-O, 2-rail 17,360 gallon Chlorine cars. I sold them 2 years ago to buy more intermodal models. To the extent I still remember when I compared models through the box at hobby shops many years ago, it seemed like the 17,600 gallon corn syrup cars were fatter & shorter than the Chlorine cars.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

 

 
Originally Posted by Martin H:

Great photography!!  You make me want to go out and buy some.

 

What do you think of the Atlas 17,360 "chlorine" cars?  Do they compare favorably to these corn syrup cars, in terms of detail and accuracy?

 

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I have 1 ACFX&3GATX chlorine tanks. I was planning a paper factory many months ago,but am heding on that idea,so may sell these. I bought them as chlorine used to be used by paper factories but I guess not so much any more.

Just in my opinion,these would make nice general service tankers. I wish Atlas would put a 20,000+ tanker out there as general service.

Al Hummel

Originally Posted by naveenrajan:

Martin,

Here are some photos of the Atlas-O, 2-rail 17,360 gallon Chlorine cars. I sold them 2 years ago to buy more intermodal models. To the extent I still remember when I compared models through the box at hobby shops many years ago, it seemed like the 17,600 gallon corn syrup cars were fatter & shorter than the Chlorine cars.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

 

 
Originally Posted by Martin H:

Great photography!!  You make me want to go out and buy some.

 

What do you think of the Atlas 17,360 "chlorine" cars?  Do they compare favorably to these corn syrup cars, in terms of detail and accuracy?

 

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Very nice pictures all. Don't the 17,600 gallon syrup cars pitch toward the center?

All the Atlas tank cars weigh a lot more than the Lionel 30K gallon modern cars do.

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Originally Posted by Martin H:
Here is a sampling of the 3-rail version.  I am hoping to covert 3 of these in the next week or so.
 
 

I hope it's easier than the experience I had converting an Atlas 2-rail 8000 gal. tank car to 3-rail. It's do-able, but it isn't easy.   I suspect going from 3 to 2-rail may be simpler.

Last edited by breezinup
Originally Posted by BobbyD:
Originally Posted by naveenrajan:

Martin,

Here are some photos of the Atlas-O, 2-rail 17,360 gallon Chlorine cars. I sold them 2 years ago to buy more intermodal models. To the extent I still remember when I compared models through the box at hobby shops many years ago, it seemed like the 17,600 gallon corn syrup cars were fatter & shorter than the Chlorine cars.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

 

 
Originally Posted by Martin H:

Great photography!!  You make me want to go out and buy some.

 

What do you think of the Atlas 17,360 "chlorine" cars?  Do they compare favorably to these corn syrup cars, in terms of detail and accuracy?

 

IMG_2858 [800x600)

 

 

 

Very nice pictures all. Don't the 17,600 gallon syrup cars pitch toward the center?

All the Atlas tank cars weigh a lot more than the Lionel 30K modern gallon cars do.

Yes the 17,600 have the pitch to the center, both ride on 100T RB trucks I don't think Atlas has had a run of the 17,360 cars in a long time, they were nicely done at the time first announced in 2004.

All the Atlas tank cars weigh a lot more than the Lionel 30K gallon modern cars do.

 

In three rail configuration (apples to apples) the visually excellent Lionel 30,000 gallon tank cars weigh 14 ounces, the Atlas 90 ton/17,360 gallon chlorine tank cars weigh 20 ounces.

 

I decided to review my other dream consist: the 17,600 tank train. I've only gathered 20 of these beauties, and I intend to get around 50 to make for a spectacular train......

 

It's tempting for me to get their new 25,000 tanks, but I think a consistent long string of the 17,600 cars would look better in the end.

 

I have never seen a corn syrup unit train.  Has anyone else?

 

I believe that the producers and consumers of corn syrup are lower volume operations that could not be effectively served by a unit train.  Twenty cars of corn syrup blocked into a 50 car manifest freight might be more realistic. 

 

The same goes with chlorine, caustic soda, propane or specialty chemicals.  Single cars or a few in a block are realistic.

 

With oil, unit trains are definitely realistic.

 

 

 

Not the norm, but yes there are...

 

Wow, just looked at Google Earth.  The Cargil plant in Eddyville is as big as the town.

 

Any idea if the unit corn syrup trains are bound for a single destination (such as Coca-Cola in Atlanta or an export terminal) or if they get broken up within the region at a classification yard like Galesburg?

 

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