Atlas N 11,000 Tank Car - SHPX/Olin Matheson 5605
$ 7.4
Description
Atlas N 11,000 Tank Car - SHPX/Olin Matheson 5605. Propane or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is both a naturally occurring product and a by-product of the refining process. During the 1940s, the petroleum industry began marketing LPG as a cleaner and more efficient fuel than the existing coal and oil. If you?re purchasing multiple items from the Atlas Model Railroad eBay Store, please add all items to your cart and click ?Request Combined Shipping? in the top right before completing checkout. This ensures you receive the most accurate shipping cost upfront and helps avoid the need for refund adjustments after payment. Original jewel case packaging included. Atlas N 11,000 Gallon Tank Cars Features: Finely molded handrails Tank fittings and safety placards 50-ton friction-bearing trucks with AccuMate® couplers Accurate painting and lettering Platform where appropriate Propane or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is both a naturally occurring product and a by-product of the refining process. During the 1940s, the petroleum industry began marketing LPG as a cleaner and more efficient fuel than the existing coal and oil. Transporting LPG requires specially designed high-pressure tank cars. During the early 40s the only ACF tank car that qualified was the 10,500 gallon high-pressure tank car. After the war, ACF set out to design a whole new car for the emerging industry. As a result the 11,000 gallon tank car was introduced by ACF in 1947. Many thousands were built up through the mid-1950s. The Atlas model faithfully reproduces this late steam/early diesel era tank car in two versions (with and without platform rails). The cars with top platform rails were used where there was no elevated loading/unloading facility. The cars without the top platform rails were often specified for customers that had access to elevated loading and unloading facilities. All Items featured in this category (Atlas Archive Sale) have been featured at the Atlas Warehouse Sale located at our main offices is Hillside NJ. Items in the category have been pulled from Atlas's archive and long term storage. Items to be listed span a 20+ year period. Listings may have been pre-production samples, production samples, trade show display models, or product that was returned for damaged packaging. Boxes may be damaged, have pricing labels present on them, or not present at all. Please be sure to look at all photographs for a complete understanding of what you are buying.
