Hello everyone. Just wanted to post my review of Lionel's new 30,000 gallon ethanol tank cars. They are excellent cars and I hope you all enjoy the review.
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Nice review, Jason. I own these cars as well, and agree that Lionel did a great job. Your layout appears to be nearly finished. It's been fun to follow the progress. Thanks for posting
Yes...I agree with Jon...nice review. I also own quite a few of these and think they are some of the nicest modern era tankers available...
Alan
Jason,
Very nice review, thanks for taking time to do it, got to say I really like the tank cars also, and they also run well thru my FasTrack 072 CC switches, probably even better than on your Atlas track.
PCRR/Dave
Thank you. Good review. They are way too modern and a bit too big for me, but they are nice cars, for sure.
Hi JD
I watched your You Tube review on the Lionel Tanks Car Sets. The individual road numbers is a big plus. Thanks for sharing.
Agreed, a good review, Jason. I too, had the same derailment problem, but with my Gar Graves switches - two or three of them. With their light weight, I suspected that weight may be the problem, so I opened each end of each car and added one half ounce weights over each truck.
Problem solved.
Nice review, Jason. I was also startled with respect to the weight of these cars.
Thank you for sharing.
Jason...I almost forgot.... THANK YOU for the mention of one of our sponsors (Stockyard Express)...AND...the mention of the OGR FORUM!! Also, your layout is very nice... I like the elevated town area that goes over the mainline tracks...
Alan
Alan - My pleasure! I'm more than happy to mention the LHS and OGR forum in my videos.
Someone had asked about the ride height. I'll admit they do appear to sit on the trucks a little high compared to the prototype. I'm not sure if it can be adjusted or not. I haven't looked.
The lightweight is also a good and bad thing. Good because it doesn't add much weight for the engines to pull. Bad because I have derailed these cars a few times now. Mainly from coupling up to the train and hitting the cars too hard. I don't ram the cars by any means but they just can't take much force especially on a curve. (I have 0-72 and O-80 curves).
These are still great cars though. Just something to keep in mind.
JD
My Procor tank cars weigh just over 13 ounces. The only lighter O scale freight car that I have is an older Weaver hopper with plastic trucks. By comparison the Atlas 90 ton chlorine tank cars weigh 20 ounces.
If you would like, you are most welcome to post your video review on the O Scale Freight Car Guide to Tank Cars. It would make a great addition to the information available there.
https://ogrforum.com/t...-car-guide-tank-cars
Very good review, Jason.
Great review Jason. Your layout looks great.
Art
This might be a stupid question, but you mentioned it had opening hatches on top. Could you fill the tank car with BBs through that hatch as a simple and easily reversible way to increase the weight and prevent the derailings?
Originally Posted by jdstucks:
The lightweight is also a good and bad thing. Good because it doesn't add much weight for the engines to pull. Bad because I have derailed these cars a few times now. Mainly from coupling up to the train and hitting the cars too hard. I
These are still great cars though. Just something to keep in mind.
Martin H, see my earlier reply. I opened each end and put a 1/2 oz stick-on tire balancing weight over each truck. So if you wanted to remove them, just open the end again and pop the weight loose.
