A few months back I purchased these damaged tankcars for $40 each. After a few days in the Stonebridge Shops this week, UTLX 14885 and PROX 23046 (renumbered 23846) were repaired and provided with new 906 series couplers.
Before
After
They will be delivered for service on the Northland Railway on Thursday.
Paul, they look great, however, as a railroader, the placards always jump out at me. I’m pretty sure that the top car should have a black & white “corrosive” placard instead of the red flammable one.
JD is correct. Hydrochloric Acid is not flammable but is highly corrosive according to it’s MSDS.
Wow! you got a great deal!
I have that same car and one end broke up for no good reason. It’s a if the plastic came out wrong. It just fractures and crumbles?
How did you do it? Parts from Ro??
Good buy Paul !!!
J.D. Gallaway said:
Paul, they look great, however, as a railroader, the placards always jump out at me. I’m pretty sure that the top car should have a black & white “corrosive” placard instead of the red flammable one.
That makes sense, but all the USAT tankcars have the same red placard. I used to have a book with all the safety signs but I think it got pitched when we moved to a smaller home. Perhaps after the operating season I will see if I can find them on the Internet.
Joe Paonessa said:
Wow! you got a great deal!
I have that same car and one end broke up for no good reason. It’s a if the plastic came out wrong. It just fractures and crumbles?
How did you do it? Parts from Ro??
I called USA Trains for two B-end platforms, but they only had one. Fortunately I was able to rescue enough parts from the two broken B-end platforms to transform a new A-end platform.
The platforms and some of the details are made of pot metal. Throw everything in the pot and see if it will melt. Some of the broken parts just crumbled. It did make it easy to remove the broken frame parts from the mounting brackets for the detail parts however. I placed the bracket in a small vice and used a disc sander to remove the broken frame pieces.
Painting the blue B-end and silver gray A-end platforms white was a challenge. It’s not a perfect match, but won’t look out of place in the working world.
Nice looking cars Paul. You guys up there in Ottawa do everything well.
Nice work, Paul
Hiya Paul…I am so happy you were able to make those tankers work out; I never could have done that!
You folks up there in Ottawa seem to have a fantastic group of very skilled modellers. Also, Ottawa seems like an incredibly beautiful city and I would dearly like to visit some time when I have the time and money.
Yesterday I saw the Canadian Pacific story in the large-screen theater, Rocky Mountain Rails or something like that, and even though I’m a Colorado boy all my life I have to say that that train ride looks spectacular. I checked with the Canadian Pacific and apparently you can buy a 30-day pass and go from one end of Canada to the other. I think the day my kids walk out the door, I’m heading for a month-long railroad trip.
Thanks John!
All the cars I bought from you will be in service during the American Invasion of Ottawa this weekend on Doug Matheson’s Northland Railway during an operating session using modern cars.
Ottawa is a beautiful city! But don’t tell anyone, as it’s getting crowded here already. In the 80’s we locals referred to Ottawa as “our town”. Some town, there are now more than a million people in the National Capital Area.
My wife and I took a first class train trip from Toronto to Vancouver on VIA, Canada’s passenger service. It was like a land cruise with great food and ever changing scenery. Northern Ontario and the Rockies in British Columbia were my favourite days.
This is trip I always wanted to take, but could never afford. But Stu Moxley found fares for us that were 75 percent off for our room. As luck would have it the airlines were having a seat sale, so the trip home was inexpensive as well.
That’s one more thing off the bucket list.