Large Ho scale tank cars? Does anybody kitba***hem or make them??

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Here are some links
http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/pvt-tank/celx/celx6420.jpg
http://rwhales.railstuff.net/

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I would imagine one could get pretty creative with PVC pipe and Evergreen. All the detail parts should be commerically available. You may have to make your own handrails, though. This is starting to sound like something I might like to take on.

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I think they’re already being made by somebody – perhaps Atlas or Walthers.

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Quality Craft Models, used to have a kit available in the 70’s-80’s. I checked the Weaver site and it appears that Quality Craft no longer exsists. I think it was a model of the GATX 96500, but I could be wrong. If you’re looking for one, I believe the bay or a train show would be your best bet.

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would anybody be inetersted in making soem for me???
here are some links to some models
http://rwhales.railstuff.net/model/model_Stroer.htm
http://rwhales.railstuff.net/model/model_Pitts_4.htm
http://rwhales.railstuff.net/model/model_DUPX_29725.htm

let me know
Thanks
Daniel Archer

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help me i want these cars!!!

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http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/utlx83699.jpg

Just to add fuel to the fire.

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http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=56366
Has this one been posted yet??? 63000 gallons; 96 feet long… WOW

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Don’t mean to sound mean or anything, but why don’t you try building one yourself? The web site on Bobby Pitt’s model basically told you what to use. You don’t have to do it exactly like he did and it may not be as detailed as his but it will be yours, and will always be special to you.

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I’ve wanted a model of UTLX 83699 since I first saw it in Galveston twenty years ago. Never seen anyone model it, but I had heard that someone took dimensions for a model, but apparently it was never produced.

Mark C.

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Actually sounds like fun, unfortunately my plate is full. From the Stroer description it sounds quite time intensive too. That will cost a pretty penny.

The car in the first post is quite different from the others.

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Is that the one they call the pregnant whale? I think Atlas did it in N-scale in the 70’s.

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Yeah but i want an ho scale one!!!

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06archerd,

Yeah, I want an HO scale one too!!! I think I heard it was in N scale, but I had never seen it in the hobby shops. That car is one of my favorites at the Galveston RR Museum.

I wouldn’t mind having a couple of the other 8-axle rolling pipes like the ones listed in one of the earlier posts. Every once in a while I see them on the main line. Awesome! I need to start running more tank cars on my freights. They seem to get left out of the train, yet in the Houston area, quite a few cars of the train are tanks.

Mark C.

Mark C.

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I would love to have one in N scale. Wait…definately more than one, a WHOLE UNIT TRAIN is what I’m talking about!

I really think you could do it by bashing together some Athearn blue-boxes. A heavy duty flat, and your choice of tankers.

Here are the N scale ones…http://www.irwinsjournal.com/a1g/