Small Scratchbuilt Tank Cars together

[tankcar]

These are the four small tank cars I scratched.

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[tankcar]

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[johnb]

Those look real good, I REALLY like the the pair with frames

[Philip H]

Great as always. What are the capacities and cargos?

[Cajonpassfan]

Bobby @tankcar, these are gorgeous!
Scale is HO I presume, with fine wheel profile?
Otto K.

[tankcar]

Thanks John and Philip, I appreciate your kind words. Philip, the two framless cars hauled Kymene from our local Hercules here in Brunswick, GA, to Macon GA, a trip of about 200 miles. It was used to give paper that slick look. Both cars had a capacity of 10,000+ gals. The smallest car hauled 2225 gals of Bromine. The two dome car carried 4000 gals of motor oil. The two compartment car carried two different weights of oil to smaller customers.

 Bobby

[tankcar]

Thank you very much Otto. You're correct on all points.

Bobby

[Mark5]

You guys are making me have tank envy!

[John]

how do you make the ends .. castings?

[tankcar]

John, the two frame less cars are brass and the ends were turned on a lathe. The ends on the Bromine car were reshaped ends from an N scale 50' modern tank car that I cut to size for the body. The ends on the two dome were made using two part epoxy that I filed and sanded to shape.

Thanks, Bobby