unpainted kit is
available as well
as an assembled
but undecorated
model.
Tangent has
released the sec-
ond production
run of its highly-
regarded General
American triple-
compartment
6,000 gallon tank car. Road names in this run include schemes
for prototypes operating between 1929 and the 1980s. They are
STCX - Standard Tank Car Company (black, 1930 to early ‘40s),
MPCX - Magnolia Petroleum Company (1935, black and silver),
GATX - General American Transportation (black, new road num-
bers, 1941+), GATX - General American Transportation (black,
1958+), GATX - General American Transportation (black, 1968-
1974), HHCX - Champlin Refining Company (white, Enid, OK,
1952+), GATX - Celanese Chemicals (green, with red and white
graphics, 1952+), D&H – Delaware & Hudson Company Service
(ex-GATX black scheme, 1972), and undecorated as shown here.
Also avail-
able now from
Tangent is
another run of
Pullman-Standard
PS-2CD 4750
covered hoppers, the largest production covered hopper design
News column - 16
MRH-Aug 2014
