Dual Diameter Tank Car

A look this time at a whalebelly/dual diameter tank car (remember those) that I had for many years.  These tank cars are listed as being 67 feet 5 inches long, so kind of big.  A nifty looking car, I used to see these in the yard here at Sarnia fairly often, sometimes they'd be in short strings.  The prototype cars have all been taken out of service due to safety concerns.

To start, here are a couple of prototype photos that I found on the internet.  Photo credit goes to the photographers and railcarphotos.comSal Crisanti photo, 2007.

Peter Bieber photo, 2006

And so here are a few views of my Atlas model, which I weathered pretty heavily several years ago.  I used thinned Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber artist oils for the rusting.  I've always liked the way ACFX 17440 turned out.

I actually entered this one in a contest on TWS-rustbucket.com after I had finished it.  I didn't win.

 

This tank car very rarely gets out on the layout because I simply don't have anywhere for it to go.  It's better suited to be spotted at a really large industry or refinery and my layout really isn't big enough to have that.

So, I decided last week that I'd see if I maybe could sell this one, thinking that then I could use the proceeds to get something else some other time.

I gave my dual diameter tank car a final ride around the layout as part of a train before I advertised it for sale.

And here are a couple of portrait type photos of ACFX 17440 that I used in the ad I placed in a facebook group.  I generally use these type of views when I want to post something for sale. 

I quickly and easily set these up these photos by laying a sheet of black construction paper on the workbench.

I was kind of sorry to see it go, but ACFX 17440 was sold in a day, and now has a new home in eastern Ontario.

That's it for now. Have a good week everybody.