Tank Cars
Tank cars are used to haul liquids. Most common are petroleum haulers, though others carry everything from cooking oil to pesticides.
Classic tinplate single-dome tank car ...
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 Cars (used to transport bulk liquids such as oil, acids, tallow and even liquefied petroleum gas)
Spine Cars (to carry truck trailers)
Coiled Steel Cars (designed to haul coiled steel and often covered to keep water off the steel) ...
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 car.
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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 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 Car
A car used for carrying liquids, such as oil, molasses, vinegar, acid, etc.
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CAN"Tank car
CANNED"Taken out of service
CAPTAIN"Conductor; often called skipper. This title dates from Civil War days when some railroads were run by the Army and the conductor was in many cases a captain ...
Compartment Tank Car
A tank car with compartments or separate tanks in which different kinds or grades of liquids may be transported.
Slang term for a tank car.
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Atlas, lumber yard, tank cars, caboose
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Inbound loads of corn, tank cars loaded with other materials required, ...
For the Atlas ACFX Kaolin tank car, I had to do much more work. The car I started with was decorated for Thele Kaolin, white with a black bottom.
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.
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.
Running Board - The walkway around the boiler of a steam engine: also a walkway along the roof or along sides of tank cars.
 See also: Tank, Train, Track, Car, Locomotive
  
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