Some shots of Athearn’s new 8K ‘beer can’ tank car.
RELEASED A FEW months back, I’ve finally received my first Athearn ‘HO’ Scale 8,000gal tank car, which are nicknamed ‘beer cans’ for obvious reasons. These are a touch out of place for my New England 2002 location/time frame, but I bought one anyway. Here are a few pictures.
Finally, Atlas’ MP15DC has been produced in Norfolk Southern black.
IT HAS BEEN a long wait - almost exactly three years - but it’s nice to actually have Atlas’ excellent MP15DC in my hands wearing the black dip of eastern thoroughbred Norfolk Southern. It’s only taken the New Jersey outfit four runs of the multi-purpose EMD to get around to producing this big Class 1’s fleet in HO!
The excellent kit maker releases its molten sulfur tank car.
IF YOU CAST your mind back to January, I posted a number of pictures of molten sulfur tank cars, inspired by Rail Yard Models’ announcement that it would be working on a brand new kit for one of these vehicles. These can be found here, here and here.
A final selection of T-Coded two-axle tanks
IN THE FINAL T-Coded update day, there is a quick look at the Carless-branded NACO74xxx TUAs which worked the Harwich-North Walsham gas condensate flow in the late 1990s, as well as a couple of the PR701xx series vehicles that were also used.
New tank cars and 89ft 4in intermodal flats hit the roster.
IT HAS TAKEN a long time coming, but finally, after many years of producing freight cars of all shapes and sizes, US manufacturer Atlas has now released an intermodal vehicle in ‘HO’ scale! This is in the form of the ACF-built 89ft 4in all-purpose flat car, designed to carry both trailers and containers.