Baltimore / King Syrup Tank Car

That brings back memories. I grew up on the big cans of king syrup.

You could always buy the car, and get it painted and lettered. Christine Braden has done several items for me and I have been extremely pleased. My best suggestion would be to shop for a Kline tank car. My email address is in my profile. If you are interested and I will send you Christine's contact info and pictures of some of her work.

Do an eBay search for "K-LIne K631-1932 ". It appears to be close the car you are looking for

@romiller49 posted:

That brings back memories. I grew up on the big cans of king syrup.

Brings back memories here also.  Sometimes the syrup would get so thick in the can that you'd have to use a butter knife to get it out.  I loved it on scrapple.  Anyway, I'd be very interested in a few of those tank cars.

Surprised Atlas hasn't produced one as they did a lot of steam-era tank cars very similar.

Mmmm, King syrup! It's nice to read that somebody else eats their scrapple with it. I grew up in Baltimore where it was the norm, but now I live in PA, and get strange looks when I pour syrup on mine at a restaurant. 

The proportions of the tank match Lionel's more than Atlas although I generally prefer the Atlas tank cars.

That stuff was so horrible that my parents would spend the extra for real maple syrup; and they really did not have the extra money, something else was cut back that week.

Having said that, I might get the model if it were reasonably priced and easily two-railed.

Nice photo!  I love tank cars - especially colorful ones.  Bought a $65 tank car book.  All photos black and white and pretty much the same.  Boring.

I know this post is old but I am doing a king syrup car and K4 pacific has the decals for the red and white car.  Have not found an all black set yet.  The stuff is great on scrapple but it must be RAPA brand.

I grew up with King Syrup as well.  A well balanced molasses that was nicely between the black strap dark molasses and the light Kayro syrup.  It goes really nicely with pumpkin pie and corn muffins.  The ownership has changed a few times as has the recipe, but last time I had some it came from Martinsburg, WV and seemed to be back to the original recipe I remembered as a child.  Great stuff.

Cool tank car.  Looks like a fun project.

@Ralph M posted:

Has anyone ever made this tank car? If not, if they did I'd buy one.

Ralph you've whetted my appetite.  I just ordered a set of O scale decals to see if I can duplicate the above tank car.  Since I have a few sacrificial single dome tank cars, this will be my after Christmas project.  You can get the decals here. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203055805421.

I'd be down for purchasing a King's Syrup tank car!  I grew up on KS.  Nothing like a hot stack of pancakes with butter slathered between each cakes and smothered in King's Syrup when I was a kid!  KS was the best!!!

@HSD68 posted:

I know this post is old but I am doing a king syrup car and K4 pacific has the decals for the red and white car.  Have not found an all black set yet.  The stuff is great on scrapple but it must be RAPA brand.

Habbersett is much better, that is why I get it by the carload;

Back to the King Syrup tanker, I would get one, too.

I overlooked this thread the first time around.

Seeing the photo of the King Syrup can brought back a wave of nostalgia for me too! My maternal grandmother always had a can of King Syrup on hand and would serve it over pancakes or scrapple when my sister and I were staying there. I hadn’t thought about that in 60 years…

A buddy of mine enjoys custom painting and detailing and this might make an ideal project for me to give to him. A Lionel steam era single dome tank car would work perfectly for this!

Curt

Here's what it looks like using an Atlas 8000 gallon tank car. Christine Braden did a fabulous job for me on this car.

Thanks - Scott

The King Syrup lion trademark would make a great paint scheme on an old fashion water tower!

I used to spend my summers with my extremely poor cousins in the tidewater area.  They had the King Syrup, and for breakfast they would only have a piece of toast with the syrup poured over it.  I tried it, and was shocked at how bad it tasted.   I was raised on good old Log Cabin, not molasses.

Mannyrock

Where did you find the all black decal set for the King Syrup car?.

Christina had them made up.

Thanks,

Scott

King Syrup I totally get, but I still don't understand scrapple.  It has been much romanticized.  My father grew up eating it because he had to.  Not because he wanted to.  As he told me, by the time my grandmother refried on the third day into some other recipe, he tried to avoid dinner.  Maybe there is an opportunity to make some custom scrapple hoppers.

Shoefly cake, Montgomery pie, a mince pie with real deer venison all with crispy crusts made with lard is what I really enjoyed from my Grandmother's Pennsylvania Dutch cooking!  I also forgot about the sweet bologna.  Not the spicier Lebanon bologna.  There is a huge difference. 

Hi Scott

Sorry but I do not know who Christina is but the car in the pictures is really nice.  I hope mine comes out as good.

@Ralph M posted:

Has anyone ever made this tank car? If not, if they did I'd buy one.

I think there are enough of us who would be interested in purchasing one, possibly several of these King Syrup tank cars.  It very well may be a candidate as a special run by either Atlas or MTH by one of the local Baltimore regional dealers such as Just Trains Delaware, Engine House Hobbies, Side Track Hobbies or even Public Delivery Track,  which is not local to Baltimore, however, Beth Marshall does do Atlas and MTH special runs.    After all this is a very wonderful tank car specimen from the steam era.     Just a thought.

I know this thread has been quiet for a while but if anyone is still doing a KS car, K-4 just sent an special offer with free shipping.  My set is on the way.

Can you post the special offer that K-4 sent.  Or provide the email for K-4?

Thanks,

HSD68, Interested. Please post or forward info on offer by email.

I do not have an E mail for them but just search K4 pacific decals.  I had them saved on my watchlist on Ebay and they sent me the offer.

Harold