O scale Republic Steel Gondolas? What were the tanks for that they carried?

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Cant seem to find the prototype for these lionel cars made in the 1970s late 1960s…

Seems to be chemical cars of some sort

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Can you post a picture.

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These cars carried containers for transporting Carbide. Used for making acetylene, & the reason for the big steel containers was because if water came in contact with carbide, it would ignite. I used to rerail a lot of those type cars & containers, & couldn’t use a torch near them. Today, some of those type containers are shipped inside of boxcars, but there are still some containers loaded on flat cars.

Thanks, John

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John, there are some other car types that I need to get photos of and let you identify the loads.

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I hope I can !! Ha !! LOL !! Oh, if I can’t we’ll get Roy & Bob !!

Thanks, John

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So how common were these loads? Lionel made a lot of these gondolas that had these tanks but I hardly ever see them in prototype photos? Perhaps I should move the question to another forum…

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WOW !!