Elvas Tower: Tankcar_10k_c.50s-80s - single dome with platform - Elvas Tower

MSTS/OR Tankcar_10k_c.50s-80s
16 private owner tank cars, circa 1960s & 70s
tankcars that served customers throughout the eastern United States and beyond
ACFX, GATX, NATX, UTLX, DUPX for chemicals
Welded 10,000gal tank & dome safety platform
Model by Paul Charland
Reskin by Christopher Parker
Includes plain leassor cars and:
Allied Chemical
Diamond Chemical
Dow Chemical
Dupont
North American Car
Olin Chemical
Stauffer Chemical
Union Carbide
US Industrial Chemicals
Wyandotte Chemicals

The set is inspired by cars found on the CNJ chemical coast line but should have wide utility beyond.

Note the slight variation in end ladders on cars built by GATX vs. ACF

These cars reflect an evolution of the standard single dome tank car.
Begining in the late thirties and becoming standard around 1952 was a safety platform around the dome.
Becoming standard around 1948 was a welded instead of rivited tank.
Some of these cars (T104) were insulated; some (T103) were not.
Beginning in the early sixties a series of innovations marked the next generation of modern tank cars:
frameless design, roller bearing trucks, the end of the dome and much larger capacity tanks 2 or 3 times bigger.
These tank cars are something of a transition between the steam era and the modern designs.
In the sixties and seventies they represented the majority of tank cars used in many locations.
According to railfan memories, in that era about half the cars were plain reporting marks only leassors,
but there was tremendous local variation in that balance as certain plants had their own marked fleets.
They lasted into the ninties, though most of the "billboard" paint schemes did not make it until the end.

This is a high poly (~6860), high detail model by Paul Charland in TS Modeler.
Models features Tim Muir couplers and air hoses along with wheel and spring textures.
Special thanks to Paul for making the GATX modifcation special for this set.

Thanks to Geoff Brown for testing and creating some additional texture modifications, also for the shapeviewer shot showing all 16 cars.

These cars hauled many commodities, but this set focuses on espcially the chemical industry.

By Christopher Parker