Tangent Scale Models HO 19063-01 General American 1917-design 10,000 Gallon Insulated Tank Car ‘Allied Chemical 1947’ ACDX #84800

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Tangent Scale Models HO 19063-01 General American 1917-design 10,000 Gallon Insulated Tank Car ‘Allied Chemical 1947’ ACDX #84800

ACDX ‘Allied Chemical’ 1964+ is a prototype repaint scheme that was applied in 1964 and represents an offering for the 1960s modelers out there. The prototype photo on our website shows this car in service in 1968 on the east coast. This scheme wears the red and white Allied Chemical logo that is nicely applied to the rounded contours of the tank. The car stenciling includes separate stencil instances for ‘Chemicals’ and ‘Plastics Division.’ As always, this scheme comes directly from a prototype car photo that matches our model. Our Allied Chemical 1964+ cars come with era-correct AB-brakes and are available in two road numbers.

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.

• Product: GATC 1917-design 10000 Gallon Tank Car
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: Tangent 50-Ton Cast Steel Spring Plank Truck
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33 inch Flat Back Wheels

Features for these 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 inch wheels in high-quality Tangent Scale Models ASF cast steel truck with spring plank and with separate brake beams