I had some bits left over that I bought for the challenge, and decided not to use… specifically about $8 worth of abs fittings. And besides, everybody needs another tank car, right?.. especially if you live in or model oil country.
I also like “different”, and what’s more different than a twin dome “boiler” gasoline tank car?
What’s a few hundred more holes to drill between friends anyway? Besides the car will make a great canvas to try to paint and letter the old Standard Oil Trust logo on.
As I mentioned in the general forum, I still need a good diagram of photo of a real1900-1920 gasoline tank car dome - from the top. Yeah, yeah, I can always fudge it, and will if I have to, and most folks would never know, but I would. John found a nice pic of a model, but not knowing what THEY fudged actually makes it harder.
Since Kim has the camera at her mom’s, I’ll just have to tell you. I’m starting with two reducing tees, two domed caps, and a coupling. I’ll be building the tank first, then cutting down an Aristo-Craft subframe to fit whatever length comes out looking “right”… but it will probably end up somewhere around 25-28 feet in 1/24 so it will fit in with the kalamazoo stuff I run. (longer cars can look like crap on r-2 curves). I also have a pair of 1st gen B’mann trucks, some plastic grabs, some stainless strip salvaged from a pair of windshield wipers, and leftover challenge gon wood… all I don’t (think I) have is trussrod turnbuckles and nwb castings for the end beams, but those can always be added later on.
Pix when I can, thanks for looking
