Richard - no, only the first two. I have scratchbuilt many tank cars, but the last two were made professionally by folks in the business of selling model trains. Lobaugh had a group of pro builders who would build a kit in exchange for another similar kit - a real loser financially, but we have many outstanding examples of such craftsmanship from pre-1941.
K-Line all metal single dome tankcar. Nice detail. How close to scale on this one???
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Originally Posted by palallin:
Don't count out small tank cars--they have come in just about every size. An 8,000 gallon tankcar is very small in 1/48 scale.
Don't discount Lionel's offerings. The pre war and post war tin cars are scale size if lacking in ultimate detail. They would make a good starting point.
Right. For comparison, here are a few shots of an Atlas O 8,000 gal. scale tank car, a Lionel traditional tank car, and a Lionel 8,000 gal. scale tank car.
The Atlas O car and the Lionel car are virtually identical in size. (And actually, the more recent Lionel cars have are slightly more detailed, with additional rivet detail.)
The Lionel scale 8,000 gal. car, while shorter, is still an 8,000 gal car, because in this design the tank is wider, as shown in the photos comparing it with the Atlas car.
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How do the Industrial Rail tankers stack up when compared to "scale"? I have a couple that have some add-on details - curious about their size.
Sorry, I mis-read this topic, I thought it said TANKARDS.
Lionel and Bachmann have made 3-dome tank cars that have chunky details, yet they look scale sized with Atlas O and Weaver box cars and open-top hoppers. Do you need finely detailed models instead?
The broken, plastic, roller bearing trucks were replaced with metal, journal bearing trucks on this MPC/LIONEL 3-dome tank car.
Andrew
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Here are some two and three dome tank cars that a two railer friend picked up for me in 2016 in Chicago and two tanks cars I picked up back in March 2017 during my second visit to the Chicago O scale show.
I could not make it to Chicago in 2016, so I ask my two railer friend to find me a two or three rail car. He found this great looking UTLX tree dome tank for me.
I picked up these tow 2 dome tank cars in Chicago back in March. The Texas Company two dome was an undecorated brass model. My two railer friend painted and lettered the car for me, and I added the Atlas three rail trucks.
I found this Tydol Veedol two tank car ready to run. all I had to do was add the switch out the two rail trucks for Atlas three rail trucks. Atlas has announced a single dome Tydol Veedol tank car in the Masters Line that I will have to order for sure.
I like the fact that two and three rail O scale tank cars always come with private ownership markings. The Lionel 3 dome tank cars and MTH three dome tank cars are nice, but more often then not they are made with railroad road names, which is just not prototypically correct for most tank cars.
Take care,
Richard
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I have the brass Roma tank car that was made by Thomas but I love single dome cars. That's what I saw as a kid in the late 40's. Black single dome cars, hundreds of them. Full trains pulling out of Southern California, Signal Hill had strings of them. I rebuild every single dome tank I can find. Don
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Wow. More than a 26 month jump on this thread from SantaFeJim's post on 5/3/15 to Falconservice's post two hours ago! A time traveler.
I think someone earlier in this thread asked about scale 3 dome tank cars. I could be mistaken, but I believe that the MTH Railking tank (1, 2 and 3 dome) cars are true 1/48 scale.
Trainguymcgee,
Yes the MTH cars are 1/48 Scale but they lack the detail found on Atlas tank cars and usually have railroad names instead of private ownership names
Richard
pro hobby posted:K-Line all metal single dome tankcar. Nice detail. How close to scale on this one???
I have always considered these to be scale size. IIRC, This one is not all metal, rather, it hs a metal frame and a plastic body.
This is the old AMT mold from 1951 or so.
One thing about tank cars: they come in a variety of sizes:
Rusty
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"One thing about tank cars: they come in a variety of sizes:"
Yes, they do. Some guys thought my project below was "inaccurate" - then I showed them a prototype photo similar to the one above. The repaint's road name, etc, is correct, though the capacities are wrong, if you care to think about it. (The Marx data is probably closer.)
Before and after examples. I added some brake equipment details, but you can't see them here.
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D500 posted:"One thing about tank cars: they come in a variety of sizes:"
Yes, they do. Some guys thought my project below was "inaccurate" - then I showed them a prototype photo similar to the one above. The repaint's road name, etc, is correct, though the capacities are wrong, if you care to think about it. (The Marx data is probably closer.)
Before and after examples. I added some brake equipment details, but you can't see them here.
There are a number of Marx scale tank cars converted to S gauge on my pike. It's cool that they are different than the basic postwar Flyer, especially the orange shell cars.
Hate to revive a really old thread, but has anyone ever seen or heard of a Lobaugh CHEMICAL tank car kit? I have seen lots and lots of the J&L cars(most painted silver), lots of the SP Crude Oil ones(though never one painted correctly), and quite a few of the other assorted Magnolia 3 domes, Mobilgas single dome, Shell double dome, etc ones, but this kit has a chemical dome and I have never seen one like it before.
Really like tank cars, have quite a few from all manufacturers. In and on my list of things to do, when other projects are completed, wish to re-letter tank cars like these pictured. These are historic for the early 20th century oil company, and forerunner of Continental Oil Co..... CONOCO. Also, the original MARX cars??
Jesse TCA
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