When?

Not sure where this should be posted...........feel free to move it if neccessary.

Anyone know when these cars (the real ones) went into service?

 

Uh, what cars?

 

Is that part important??

 

Obviously must have been after the post was made because there are no pictures to show.

 

wow those are ghost cars . i think ive seen those late at night.

 

Usually I try to avoid piling on but...

 

Those tires don't have the correct tread pattern. I call foobie.

 

Alright…what’s “foobie,” or “a foobie”???

 

oops......try this again Atlas 37031 N scale Suburban Propane 33,000 Gal Tank Car #1309 w Free ship! | eBay

 

Trying to dig up some info....no luck so far...

 

Early 1960's

Doug

 

Agree with Doug.
I have several of these with build dates mid 1960's. These ran for many years thereafter and updated up to 1980's until replaced with more modern propane tank cars. Some may have still been around in 1990s.

 

A fake. Often used to refer to models done in paint schemes that the prototype never wore, like a Con-cor CSX turbine

 

Thanks......I was guessing 60's. I'm looking for Propane cars from the 50's and I thought that looked a bit newer. I've seen this car in several paint schemes.......not sure if I would care if it was a fake scheme.......the place it's delivering to is fake too. But I do care that it's era appropriate. I'm trying very hard to keep all my cars and locos "transition era" correct.

 

I believe that Atlas did their 11,000 gal tank cars with only small propane specific domes. They would have been the predecessor to the 33,000 gal versions

 

'50's huh? Well, you could justify having these by reasoning that the railroads and manufacturers were experimenting with the jumbo cars before putting them in regular production. Easy.



Doug

 

I remember when a certain hobby store; the name escapes me now but they deal in woo woo woo was blowing those same cars out for about $7.00. Now this Ebay vender wants six times that amount. So when does the insanity end? Or does it?