EOT DEVICE for GATX TRAINCARS

doesn't the three pack have an EOT? I know if the First Run GATX three pack came with an EOT.

I purchased a used set of the GATX tank cars and the first owner had cut all the eot wires off it and also changed the truck (no wire pick up). I did not know that at the time so I ordered all the parts to put the eot back into one of the cars. I was lucky because the one tank car  I picked to fit the electronics into already had the old pcb in it, now I have two eot devices working. I got the parts from Lionel, I f I remember right the only issue was the color of the light housing (where the led goes) was wrong. A little paint fixed that.

It's fairly simple to just construct an EOT device.  I did one for someone that used pair of AA batteries in a battery holder with a blinking LED.  It's been over a year, and he's never turned it off, still blinking on the original set of batteries.  I used a FRED housing I got from Lionel with a blinking LED.

Sounds like a nice piece of work John

Are these tank train cars the only Lionel rolling stock that came with an operating EOT device?

The Lionel Vision Line Ethanol Tank Cars have them, and I have another Lionel car that has a FRED, but I don't remember which one right now.  I have several MTH ones with their FRED as well.

Some time back we talked about doing this, and I posted pictures, don't have them locally any more.

I don't have the GATX set to look at, but I believe the end car has some holes to mount the FRED.

It doesn't look like Lionel has the parts you need, the FRED housing or the truck with the power pickups.  I'd just find a FRED enclosure and put a blinking LED into it.  They do still have the PCB that was inside the car...

Lionel GATX B Car Parts Breakdown

marshelangelo do any of your GATX have the pic up wires on the trucks ?

You can mount the MTH End of train device on a Premier 20K Gallon Tank Car in the GATX TankTrainer scheme.

Product Name:       20K Gallon 4-Compartment Tank Car        

http://mthtrains.com/20-96728

The MTH Premier GATX TankTrain 20K gallon tank car could have the Premier truck with End of Train Device screwed to it. The first thing to do is to figure out how to carefully take apart the tank car to access the screw for the truck. Which screws have to be removed?

You may have picked up a car in the wrong box(a non ETD in the ETD car box).

Case in point, shortly after the release of the BNSF Ice Cold Express came out I was buying some of the LCCA's Ice Cold Express reefer cars to add to my set. One of the reefers that I bought came and it had the Ice Cold Smoking reefer from the set in the LCCA reefer box. I contacted the gentleman the sold me it and he told me that he had sent the set back to Lionel. So I just have a car in the wrong box. Come to think of that I may also have that car in my collection. Because after that I went to Lionel's Service Center sale a few years back and I bought 6 of the smoking cars & 6 of the sound cars to the Ice Cold Express set for $30 each and now I recall not ever taking any of them out of the boxes.

And sometimes you may find one on the bay where someone has broken up a set. I picked up a CN GATX Tank Train with the ETD to put with another bunch of CN Tank Train car to make a set of them.

How can anybody actually afford to purchase repeat road numbers of Lionel TankTrain Tank Cars?

Buying just one of each road number is expensive enough and they are not for sale all the time.

Andrew

Another thing you could try is to get a MTH covered hopper and put the MTH EOT on it and put it at the end of the train like the railroads do. 

Gemtlemen, I've discovered what my problem is, I purchased my Lionel GATX Tank Train car with excitement over the fact that I finally found the train I needed to discover that the car I purchased is the "A-End of Train Car" not the "B-End of Train Car" that I need, so my quest continues for the "B EOT Car" again.  Thanks for all of your help and concern. - MARSHELANGELO

OK, I thought you wanted/needed to convert one to the end of train..

The 3-pack set was made up of

1, 6-19640 Gatx tank train "A" car

2, 6-19641 Gatx tank train intermediate car

3, 6-19642 Gatx tank train "B" car .. which has the eod in it.

glad you discovered what you need..good hunting.