Easy Homemade car - Really ?

@Choo Choo Charlie posted:

I set a tank from a tanker car into a gondola car and wandered if that combination was ever used.  The tank would have to have the bottom valves removed and blinded and an outlet would have to be added remove the liquid from the bottom, possibly a pipe from the dome to the bottom.  It could be emptied with air pressure.

Charlie

Cant say ive ever seen that combo in any RR book i've read.  Early on tanks were generally mounted on flat cars to form the tank car as we know it today.  But whose to say your miniature shop workers havent stumbled upon the next great idea?  And if it doesnt work its an easy trip to the scrap yard. :-)

I’ll bet there was a US railroad somewhere that did what you have created.

@romiller49 posted:

I’ll bet there was a US railroad somewhere that did what you have created.

Paint the gondola MOW gray or yellow and I'll bet you are right.  John

In the world of MOW prototypes, of course this arrangement is 'correct'!  Equipment was evolutionary from cast-offs, from the creative minds of shop workers, designs documented perhaps from a sketch on a lunchbox napkin, ...even a job I'd have probably done for the halibut just because it sounds like FUN!!!

Aside from specialized pieces...like cranes...I seriously doubt there was much market or catalog to sell from for MOW equipment 'back then'.  Nowadays?...yeah, the stuff's getting pretty sophisticated, and often in the hands of whole travelling companies cleaning up disasters or making trackage repairs.

Hope you don't mind!?...I'm gonna borrow your idea myself!!

I wonder if the occasional tank from a train wreck might have been moved back to the shop or scrap like this? Trucks on real freight cars are not really attached anyway, and cars often are de-trucked during a wreck, then are too damaged in the frame (let's say) to be re-trucked and rolled away.

Or - you could claim to have invented a new freight car type. Tankgon. Tankdola. Gontank.