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Since the beginning of railroading in the United States, tank cars have been an essential part of the freight car fleet. From their primitive beginnings as barrels mounted to flatcars, tank cars have evolved into complex designs optimized for hauling a variety of liquids, from corn syrup to anhydrous ammonia.

While tank cars are prolific, most railroads do not own large fleets of these relatively specialized cars, preferring to make use of fleets managed by freight car companies, such as GATX. One of the larger equipment management companies, GATX can trace its history to the turn of the century, and is well-known for its large fleet of tank cars of varying designs, many of which were built in-house. One of the more distinctive designs to originate from GATX is the “TankTrain”, which made its debut in the 1970s. The TankTrain concept was a solution to the problem of long load/unload times for unit train shipments of particular commodities, such as crude oil. A typical unit train can take significant time to load or unload, with the need for workers to attach the necessary hoses and other fittings to each individual car, coupled with the necessary time to load or unload the commodity from each car. The TankTrain was designed to significantly reduce this time.

TankTrain cars are interconnected with a large-diameter, flexible hose between each car, which allows the commodity to be siphoned off at a single point at the end of a set of cars while being “pushed” at the opposite end with inert nitrogen gas. Using this method, TankTrain cars can be loaded or unloaded at a rate of approximately 3,000 gallons per minute, allowing a train of 90 cars to be loaded or unloaded in under five hours. This has the obvious benefit of increased equipment utilization, as well as reduced labor costs, and shorter dwell times at terminals. Additionally, TankTrain cars were built in various sizes and designs to handle various commodities resulting in a wide variety of TankTrain cars roaming the nations’ rails.

This release includes an unnumbered car along four multiple car packs in three schemes.

Features:

• Fully-assembled and ready-to-run out of the box
• Accurately painted and printed for prototypical realism
• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
• Coupler lift bars, trainline hoses, brake hoses, and hardware
• Trucks with rotating bearing caps
• Machined metal wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
• Weighted for trouble free operation
• Body-mounted, McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Correct walkways, manways, and load/unload pluper series
• Finely detailed walkways
• Correct transfer plumbing per prototype series and end (A-end or B-end)
• Full underbody plumbing and rigging
• Detailed, soft vinyl transfer hoses that bend as the car negotiates curves
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”
• 282-series era: 1977 to present
• 486-series era: 1982 to present

"Primed For Grime" Features:

• Duplicated look and feel of “In Service” equipment; “Tattered and Torn” just like the real thing
• Faded base colors matched to the prototype
• Patches applied and shaped per road number matching each corresponding side to the prototype
• Perfect starting point for adding grime and rust

Reservations Due By: July 27, 2017

Expected Release: June 2018

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