I saw a new Atlas 25,500 gal. tank car that is referenced as “NATX [UTCK Repaint]”. I understand NATX is a reporting mark that was used by North American Tank Line, North American Car Corp, and General Electric Railcar Services Corp, but can’t find a reporting mark “UTCK” or a company using that abbreviation. I understand UTCX was used by Union Tank Car Company - could “UTCK” be a misprint or, otherwise
Union Tank Car bought the tank car assets of GE Railcar around 2016. This is a UTC shop repaint.
[bow]Thanks cv_acr. So…“UTCK” is a misprint (should be “UTCX” repaint), right?
Thanks, again, Chris. So, to be clear, the Atlas car has the photo of a car that has an NATX reporting mark (for a GE Railcar) with the caption, “Trinity 25,000 Gallon Tank Car NATX [UTCK Repaint]” so saying it’s an “UTCK repaint” is wrong, because (1) if it was a repaint it would have a UTC mark (for example, UTCX), not NATX, and (2) there is no UTCK mark. Right? [*-)]
Wrong.
UTC acquired the tank car assets including the reporting marks. They’ve been repainting NATX (and acquiring new cars with NATX marks) in their own lettering style.
The model represents a tank with NATX reporting marks that’s been repainted by Union Tank Car. You can see UTC’s “The Tank Car People” slogan by the numbers.
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=natx250381&o=utlx
The “UTCK” is NOT a reporting mark, it’s the code for the paint shop.
UTLX is a division of Marmon which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. So it is a sister company to BNSF.