Tank Cars
Tank cars are used to haul liquids. Most common are petroleum haulers, though others carry everything from cooking oil to pesticides.
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Now place the weight into the bottom of the tank. I put my weight in with the added weights up to be more sure as the years go by that they will stay in place.
Tank Locomotive
A steam locomotive that carries its own water supply, rather than towing a separate vehicle for the purpose. Usually indicated by a `T' appended to wheel arrangements when describing locomotives (e.g. 0-6-0T)
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tank car is a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry liquefied loads, petroleum products, liquid chemicals and gasses. Many variants exist due to the wide variety of liquids and gases that can be transported.
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Tank Locomotive - Most commonly used for switching rolling-stock, these small steam locomotives carried their own fuel and water, thereby waiving the need for an attached tender.
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Tank engine (UK): A locomotive that carries its own fuel and water instead of hauling a tender.
TANK"Locomotive tender. Tanker is tank car used in hauling oil, water, milk, chemicals or some other liquid
TEAKETTLE"See kettle
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Tank Engine
A steam locomotive that carries its fuel and water supply in tanks hung over or alongside the boiler, or on a frame extension at the rear, instead of in a tender.
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Tank car
Used to carry gases and bulk-quantity liquids such as corn syrup, petroleum products, and other chemicals. May be interconnected with hoses.
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Tank cars often have streaks of load spills on the sides coming down from the hatches. You can use dry brushing to create these streaking effects either lightly or strongly as you wish.
Tank engine
A small steam locomotive that doesn't have a tender for storing water and fuel. Instead it has large metal water tanks, mounted on either side of the boiler. Fuel - usually coal - is stored in a bunker at the back of the engine.
Tank Car
Any car used only for transporting liquids, liquefied gases, compressed gases, or solids that are liquefied or compressed prior to loading
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Tank Dome
A vertical cylinder attached to the top of a tank car. It permits the tank proper to be filled to full cubical capacity, which would be impossible if there were no allowance for expansion in the dome.
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Tank Locomotive A steam locomotive where the water tank and coal bunker are built into the locomotive so a tender is not required. Tender A piece of rolling stock permanently coupled to a steam locomotive to carry coal and water.
Tank Locomotive -A locomotive which carries its fuel and water supplies on its own main frames.
Tank - Freight car designed to carry liquids or gases in a tank like container.
Side Tank
RAILWAY. See "Tank Engine".
Siding
RAILWAYS. A length of track, usually a dead-end, used to park rolling stock which is not currently in use. See also "Lead" and "Spur".
Signal Box
RAILWAYS.
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In days gone by, a main air reservoir under a vehicle could collect so much condensate (water) that a sharp frost could cause it to freeze and expand sufficiently to split the tank.
Water Tower : An elevated water-storage tank.
Water Troughs : Longitudinal troughs of water laid between the rails of a train track, for the purpose of a locomotive picking up water without stopping.
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Whether it's a metal Warhammer creature or a fine metal tank model, most metal miniatures will have mold lines and imperfections from when it was forged.
Running board: Walkway along roof or along sides of tank cars.
Scale: The size of things on a model railroad relative to things on a real railroad. For example, in the most popular scale, HO, models are 1/87th full size.
Certain cars such as tank cars may give detection difficulties due to the open nature of their underframes. This will be a problem with just about any above the track visible light detection system.
Walkway along roof or along sides of tank cars and steam locomotives.
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Among the Atlas freight cars were a 94' tank car with four trucks, 85' box cars, and 85' stock cars.
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About the only cars which would clear those tunnels were hoppers and a standard 40' box car. Cars which exceeded car outline "Plate C", like many covered hoppers, bulk head flats, large tank cars, 60' box cars, etc., would not clear.
A "T" at the end indicates a tank engine. Wye A track shaped like the letter "Y", but with a connector between the two arms of the "Y".
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 See also: Train, Track, Engine, Locomotive, Point
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