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Crude oil

phillphillOGR Forum Member

With the hold on pipelines and the increase in shipping crude by rail I was lookng for an Atlas car to put into that service. I see nothing in the 31000 gal range that the greenbrier tank car I found but not made in scale is rated for that service. It looks like there has to be many many cars in service for this light sweet oil being pumped. I have too many,18,  of the corn sweetner cars, and now thinking I need to find a car that resembles what is presently being used to transport this crude from N Dakota. Using railroads to transport the oil is good as it isn't bound to one place to unload but can go to West coast ports and refineries. So my UP engines can pull these cars to the NW like they have been doing for a few years now.

So what Atlas cars are best suited for this task?  What label of those cars as I see the 25500 can possibly be a winner for this train<BASF?

 

Phil 

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TH Ted HikelOGR Forum Member

Phil

 

Lionel has the only 30,000 gallon tank car available in mass produced O scale.  It is an excellent model and a good candidate for a 2R conversion.  The 2013 Lionel Signature catalog has Procor and UTLX road names in 3 car numbers each.

 

The new 25,500 gallon tank car is the closest thing from Atlas.  They are a bit undersized for oil but plausible.  GATX Rexene or PLMX may be the best bets for oil service but I can't tell exactly how they are placarded.

AK Anthony KOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by Ted Hikel:

Phil

 

Lionel has the only 30,000 gallon tank car available in mass produced O scale.  It is an excellent model and a good candidate for a 2R conversion.  The 2013 Lionel Signature catalog has Procor and UTLX road names in 3 car numbers each.

 

The new 25,500 gallon tank car is the closest thing from Atlas.  They are a bit undersized for oil but plausible.  GATX Rexene or PLMX may be the best bets for oil service but I can't tell exactly how they are placarded.

I saw Atlas's pre-production examples at York and they matched what was reported. The Atlas cars are reported to be placarded for the following:

GATX Rexene: Styrene UN2055

GATX-BASF: 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate UN1993

PLMX: some sort of petroleum distillates UN1268. 

The Cargill and ADM cars obviously wouldn't carry crude oil.

 

The one car that doesn't appear to have a placarded load is the IBPX. I don't know what company IBPX reporting marks are for. While the 25,500 gal cars aren't typically loaded with crude, perhaps you could make your own UN1267 flammable liquid placards? 

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