As always Dan, I’m in awe of your model. Amazing in research, CAD, fabrication, assembly and finishing.
Such a strange car though, so I have to ask about the proto. Given the rear plumbing, and the sheer mass of the pressure vessles and difficulty moving them, I’ll guess that the gasses were onboarded and offboarded via hoses, vs moving loaded tanks. Is that so? But in that case, how could specific company logos be assigned to the tanks?
Just curious.
Cliff
Thanks Cliff.
Yes. Each non-removeable vessel has Its own valve and lead pipe to the top where a hose connection can be made. It certainly is a quite a load with all those cylinders vs a single tank but necessary to comply with safety regulations.
The logos are the gas supply company and vessel builder. Not assigned to the tanks.
Dan, thanks for the explanation. Fascinating.
From this quote, it sounded like the load was specifically hydrogen, indicating perhaps vessels designed for that, vs. any of the other commercial gasses.
Or maybe the vessels can transport any of those, but you’re tagging them for a specific gas, via a decal?
Sorry for al the questions, it’s just interesting to me.
im more interested in the flat car
looks amazing!
thanks for sharing
Are those 40’ container size ?
The vessels are pretty much the same for all 3 but I decided mine would carry hydrogen to serve a future depot on my layout for refueling H2 locos!
Thanks John. That’s something else I finished today. VTTX rebuilds. I should probably start another thread for those though. 
Thanks Dan! Since I cannot run double stacks due to a clearance issue, putting them on a regular container would possibly allow 2 containers and clear the obstacle I didn’t notice until it went crunch
Hydrogen? What’s wrong with CNG “compressed natural gas”? Safer than hydrogen. 
Driven by the successful testing and implementation of Hydrogen freight locos by CPKC and CSX I have thought about modeling one.
Like the prototype, the model is a heavy load. Maybe I should have used thin wall cpvc instead rigid PVC pipe. I left the 2 innermost ones out.
two pound?
what would that be? about four eggliner’s weight?
Actually I think about the same as an eggliner.
I like the H2, it would make for one hell of a Gomez Adams scene.
Would be a cool model, paint scheme and all!
Question is will NTSB fully approve the 1:1 protos eventually and if so who gets sued if there is a mile long freight train Hindenburg style accident. 
Wow those look great. What an interesting load on the train they will be.
This project is getting more and more interesting in its potential.
For those who fear hydrogen.
https://hydrogen.wsu.edu/2017/03/17/so-just-how-dangerous-is-hydrogen-fuel/
Great article Dan. There is talk that hydrogen run houses and vehicles will dominate the bush (the outback) long term. Currently much of the hydrogen fuel here is produced from hydrocarbons, but when it can be produced locally it is considered that it will be a very good source of clean power.
