8,000 Gallon Radial Course Tank Car
Prototype Information
In 1917, General American Tank Car introduced its 8,000-gallon, non-insulated radial course tank car. It quickly became popular with bulk liquid shippers. Built in East Chicago, IN, the cars had circumferential rivets with varying heights, steel bolster plates to secure the tank, and web sections to save steel.
These cars also carried molasses, corn syrup, and caustic soda. Railroads repurposed some for maintenance-of-way service, like BN’s oxide-red water cars. GATC’s 1917-design radial course tanks operated nationwide from 1917 into the 1970s and set a standard for bulk-liquid transport.
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Tangent HO GA 8,000 Gal. Radial Course Tank Car Cities Service Oil Company “CSOX, 1937+”
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Tangent HO GA 8,000 Gal. Radial Course Tank Car Continental Oil “CONX, 1923+”
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Tangent HO GA 8,000 Gal. Radial Course Tank Car North American Lease “VENX, 1964+”
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Tangent HO GA 8,000 Gal. Radial Course Tank Car Union Starch & Refining “GATX, 1950+”
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