i may be mistaken, but didn't sp have on;y one ladder on their cars?
mel perry
On Oct 15, 2012, at 2:58 PM, tpm1ca wrote:
Hi Bill:
Very useful - thanks!
British American Oil (B/A) is a Canadian company and I have decals
for their tank cars. These cars are probably too large for B/A
service. But I may be able to do them CGTX and reletter my S Scale
America cars for B/A.
Cheers!
- Trevor
--- In [email protected], "scale S only" <scalesonly@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all --
>
> There were a UP car (ladders and walks on both sides with
National B trucks), a ATSF Tk-K, WP (probably one of those in the
photo), and two SP cars (also probably one in the photo without the
second rung in the stirrup step). Microscale did the decals for the
SP cars (probably still available through Des Plaines Hobbies), but
all the rest would require some piecing together from other scales.
The ATSF car has a significantly different frame from the rest, and
is not really like any other car from any other line. It would take
some pretty good sleuthing to determine whether one of the cars you
have is WP or if they are both SP. As such, you could letter them
both as SP and get away with it. Considering most of these cars
were used to haul company fuel oil, they probably didn't see much
off line use. Using some modelers license and lettering them for a
Canadian/Canadien road would be just fine.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Bill Winans
> ------------------------------
>
> I photographed those when they were being initially imported. Our
club bought the 5 car set and divided up the set. Seems to me there
was one UP, 1 or 2 SP's, but I've forgotten the other RR's--maybe
WP and/or ATSF? One of the factors was the single spring truck on
the UP model--National B, perhaps. Anyway the UP models do have
double ladders.
>
> The last time I saw Jettie at the Duluth Convention he had a
bunch for sale that had been painted and lettered although used.
>
> Bob Were
>
> ------------------------
> > Hi Trevor;
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, those are Southern Pacific or UP tank cars
imported some years ago by Southwind or RR models. They would be
large, 12500 gal cars. The back one is clearly a General American
designed car with the two rung steps and double strap holding the
tank to the support.
> >
> > Tony Thompson wrote about modeling them in his blog:
> >
> > http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/05/modeling-sp-tank-
cars.html
> >
> > Assuming you don't need an SP car, you could look for cars of
similar gallon capacity for GATX or UTLX and letter them
appropriately.
> >
> > The ladder on one side only is not so unusual, I recall it was
a standard feature on UTLX design cars, the single largest tank car
fleet! Cars that UTLX acquired from other lines did have ladders on
both sides, but their home design cars didn't.
> >
> > Pieter E. Roos
> ------------------------------------->
> > > I picked up two brass tank cars yesterday at a local
> > > gathering. I'm trying to determine the prototypes so I know
> > > how to paint/finish them. Any help would be appreciated.
> > > Photos and more information can be found here:
> > > http://themodelrailwayshow.com/cn1950s/?p=1604
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > - Trevor
>
