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Here’s an interesting topic. I just got my new Walthers Procor UTLX 16, 000 gallon funnel flow tank car. It’s a beauty. While admiring the car I was reading the inscriptions. I hope you can magnify the photos to see the details on the lettering. I noticed this error. In engli***he warning below the Sulphuric Acid label reads" Not for flammable liquids". Just below it in French it reads" Liquides Inflammables intendits". However , being originally from Quebec my French is pretty good and the spelling of “indendits” should be “interdits” which literally translates into “prohibited”. This is no big deal. However you’d think someone should have proofread the sign a little more carefully. I guess something was lost in the translation between Chinese/English/French. On the optimistic side maybe this is a “one of” error , in that case the value of this car has increased dramatically. LOL. I started checking some of my other cars and sure enough I found another one. The Shell Model Power tank car (made in Yugoslavia) had an interesting description just below the safety valve notice. “Meater pipes”. Another possible diamond in the rough?
That brings to mind many years ago when Canadian National began lettering their rolling stock in English on one side and French on the other they got thousands of calls and letters asking how they could have misspelled “Canadian”. Of course in French it is spelled “Canadien”.
Anybody else have similar findings or stories?
Just putting in my few comments after reading all the other ones being posted.
I once saw a Wisconsin Central SD-45 at Fond Du Lac that was lettered Central Wisconsin. They were getting it ready to leave on a job when someone caught it on the turntable in North Fond Du Lac Wis at 0615 on a Monday morning and showed it to his boss after the morning safety meeting were he had his second cup of coffee…
The reason I started this discussion again is that while I was researching the"Chemtrec" bright yellow label found on tank cars nowadays, I stumbled over this tread and the tank car photos at the beginning of the page.
Look at the White Sulphuric Acid tank picture: The “Emergency” phone number listed on the quite visible label: 800-487-2467 actually belongs to “Walthers” the train manufacturer.
Just do a search on the net using the number if you don’t believe me
So in case of a spill on the layout (coffee, milk, whatever) make sure that the appropriate number is called for cleaning and damage claims
Sounds good to me… I thought you were asking the original OP the question. Interesting the thread is getting more attention now than it did 5 years ago. LOL
I have an Athearn Flat car with a load of Waterloo Boy Farm Tractors on it. John Deere stopped making the Waterloo Boy in 1924. The car with the “New from the Factory” tractors was built in 1929…
