GATC 8,000 Gallon Radial Course Tank Car
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $46.95
Era: 1917+
Manufacturer: Tangent Scale Models, P.O. Box 6514, Asheville, NC 28816; 828-412-3886; tangentscalemodels.com
GATC 8,000-gallon tank car features:
- Circumferential riveted tank body and riveted underframe
- hazardous placards with hole detail
- Separately applied tank handrail & tank strap details
- KC- or AB- brake variations & hand brake appliance options depending on the prototype car
- wire grab irons and coupler lift bars
- Kadee® “scale-head” couplers
- Multiple road numbers for each scheme
Release date: Available now
Road names: Burlington Northern (orange with white lettering in one road number); Continental Oil (black with white CONX reporting marks); Cities Service Oil (black with white lettering & Cities Service logo); Dunbar Molasses New Orleans (black with white lettering in two road numbers); Deep Rock – Cushing (black with white lettering and yellow Deep Rock logo); GATX Union Starch and Refining (red with white lettering); Spokane, Portland and Seattle (black with white lettering in one road number); UTLX “black repaint 1948+” (black with yellow lettering in 12 road numbers); VENX “1964 Lease” (black with white lettering & North American logo in four road numbers). Six road numbers per scheme unless noted.
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