Tangent Scale Models HO 19022-01 General American 1917-design 8000 Gallon Non-Insulated Tank Car Spokane, Portland & Seattle SP&S 'Water Service 1964+' SP&SX #405

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Tangent Scale Models HO 19022-01 General American 1917-design 8000 Gallon Non-Insulated Tank Car Spokane, Portland & Seattle SP&S 'Water Service 1964+' SP&SX #405

SP&S ‘Water Service 1964+’ is available now as our MOW offering for Spokane, Portland, and Seattle SP&S and Burlington Northern BN modelers alike. The arid grasslands around the SP&S mainline in Washington state called for a fleet of tank cars to provide water for extinguishing fires that might occur along the right of way. Each was painted slightly differently, and each tank in the fleet was sourced individually, however this car is a ringer for the Tangent Scale Models 1917-design cars, so here it is, available now in one road number. These cars lasted into the BN years.  

This road number is a rerun from our 2020 release, as a favor to the SP&S fans that missed out on our first run.

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. 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. 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 at a time when steel was a scarce commodity. The Tangent Scale Models GATC 1917-Design 8,000 Gallon General Service Tank Car is a highly-detailed tank car model that includes details accurate for each paint scheme, including KC- or AB-brake variations, different dome heights, with or without Cardwell draft sill springs, and different hand brakes. The GATC 1917-design prototypes were the most prolific tank cars built during this period and were found everywhere from 1917 to roughly 1970.

Features 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-inch 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.

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