Tangent Scale Models HO 19017-10 General American GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car ‘Union Starch and Refining Company 1950+’ GATX #6724

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Tangent Scale Models HO 19017-10 General American GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car ‘Union Starch and Refining Company 1950+’ GATX #6724

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. Radial course means the tank’s steel panels overlap each other, looking like stairsteps.

GATX ‘Union Starch and Refining Company 1950+’ in the attractive ‘Union Starch and Refining Company – Quality Products From Corn’ bright red scheme with accompanying white stenciling with black border.  These cars also feature ‘GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS’ spelled out.  This transition-era tank car is another great nationwide roamer, seen on all corners of the North American rail network hauling corn products. These models come with an AB brake system, and are available in six all-new road numbers for 2022.

Features for these awesome replicas include:

• Features for these awesome replicas include:
• Circumferential riveted tank body and riveted underframe
• Radial course tank body – note the stairstep appearance
• All-new underframe for the GATC 1917-design
• See-through cast knee above the bolsters
• Accurate dome appliances
• Dimensionally-correct hazardous placards with accurate hole detail
• Separately applied tank handrail
• Separately applied tank strap detail
• KC- or AB- brake variations depending on the prototype car
• Inclusion of Cardwell draft sill springs depending on the prototype car, otherwise oval frame openings where the springs were removed
• Different hand brake appliance options depending on the prototype car
• Highly correct true to life colors
• Hyper-Accurate lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement, including lettering applied to the underframe and air reservoir
• Durable wire grab irons and coupler lift bars
• Separate air hoses
• Near-scale draft gear box with side detail
• Kadee scale-head couplers
• CNC-machined 33” wheels in high-quality Tangent Scale Models ASF cast steel truck with spring plank and with separate brake beams
• Replacement semi-scale wheels available separately from Tangent
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme – these cars often traveled in groups of more than one
• Recommended age 14 years and older

Prototype Information:

By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-related products was sharply increasing thanks to the combination of war-related demands as well as demands from home. In order to move oil and new consumer products, tank car producers introduced new car designs. In 1917, General American Tank Car introduced a new general service 8,000 gallon non-insulated tank car that became immensely popular with bulk liquids shippers.

Built in East Chicago, IN, these cars were easily identifiable by their circumferential rivets that surrounded the tank body, with notably different heights between the courses. These “radial course” tank cars utilized steel bolster plates that rise up vertically to hold the tank in place, complete with a “web” section behind to minimize steel consumption

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