How do you tell which is the LGB and which is the Bachmann? I didn’t find any name on my tank car.
Doug,
It has LGB embossed underneath near the brake cylinder. Plus Lehman is there as well.
It also misspelled “Alamosa” on the printing on the side. LGB’s read “Almosa”.
I don’t know if LGB corrected this on their re issues, but the first ones were Almosa.
Nice find.
Too bad they are a little too big for my 1:22.5 scale layout.
I’ve got two 1:24 scale Precision Scale tanks. Nice models, and they look pretty good with LGB sized rolling stock. And they are frameless just like the prototypes. The Bachmann Big Hauler and LGB tanks are unfortunately not.
I figured the price would go up as bids came in but it stalled just under $100. It will most likely be the only one in the collection, most seem to be in the $160 to $200 range.
Well John, by UK standards, as any living over here will attest, prices are still cheap Stateside.
Whatever, the frameless ones are very looking cars.
Finally got my hands on my Bachmann 1:20.3 Gramps tank car today. Overall its an excellent car but when Bachmann says 8’ curves that’s what they mean, not 8’ with a little room to spare but 8’. My min curve is 8’ so I did a small mod to the trucks so it would move through the curve a little easier. Paint is excellent and the chain details are well done. The Journal box covers fall off very easy so I glued them down, they are a nice detail but they fall off way too easy.
I love the car but I won’t be getting any more of them, just too much work to get the bugs out so it rolls without any problems. Still happy I have one though.
They look pretty good especially with a bit of weathering and a few oil drips.
Bob Hyman
Bachmann has released two additional road numbers. Here’s a short video clip of one of my RGS trains with all three GRAMPS cars near the end. This video clip was shot on Marty Cozad’s layout in September 2012.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOoy_S7EDEk[/youtube]
Bob Hyman
The kit looks nice. They are still out of my price range. Later RJD
Grandpa surprised grandaughter with Gramps Tank Car when she visited after calling me “Gramps” - 8 years old then!
http://www.largescalecentral.com/public/album_photo/37/b9/01/1b67f_c6f0.JPG
Thank you Joe, how did you do that? 
You click on the little picture of the tree at the top of the reply box and insert the url of your picture there and then click insert.
Trainworld has Bachmann Gramps on sale for $100.
Tom
There’s a Bachmann 1:20.3 Gramps listed on ebay, road number 88174.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bachmann-Frameless-Tnk-Gramps88174-G-/151302090755
Not sure if that is a good price as I’m not in the market for the 1:20.3 cars.
The price on evil-bay is outrageous. I purchased 2 tanks for $145 a couple of yrs back. Maybe not more than $100 street price.
Rick
Richard Slater said:
The price on evil-bay is outrageous. I purchased 2 tanks for $145 a couple of yrs back. Maybe not more than $100 street price.
Rick
Thanks for the info Rick.
This is for the 1:20.3 versions and not the 1:22.5 Big Hauler tanks, right?
I see Bachmann tanks 1:20.3 SCALE new on e-bay go for $45.00 to $ 90.00 . I bought several in the lasy year foue around $ 5O. TO $ 60. EACH. Allen
Oh! I thought this was the GRAMPS tank car that was made several years back through 3 ft classic models. I missed out on the frameless GRAMPS at the time just picking up the UTLX framed version.
They were very nice models.
Lorna