Kimberly came home from a yard sale this weekend with a trunk full of N Scale trains and 2 boards with track, houses, etc. All for $40! Some really good stuff, well worth more then $40. She told me to keep what I could use, and sell what I didn't want. She just couldn't pass up this deal. (What a good wife!) In going through the stuff, I found this car. Does anyone have any info on it? Is it prototypical? The model says Atlas so I would assume they did it after something real. Any guesses/info/photos?
Awesome Jerry!! Thats a Atlas first gen! Wanna sell it? hehe There are vinegar tanks, but I have not seen pics of prototypes that look exactly like that. More info here.. A1G-The Atlas N Scale "1st Generation" (c)2001-2008 George J. Irwin click......3010 Series: Water ("Vinegar") Tank Cars
Yes, it's an Atlas 1st Generation car. What does it say on the underside? (e.g. Atlas Austria, Trix Austria, Minitrix,....?) I think I have a foto of that or a similar prototype somewhere. Let me get back to you when I get home tonight... Michael
http://www.jeffstrainsite.com/railfan_pics/railroad_museums/stlouis/sbix_tankcar_1634.jpg http://www.wsrhs.org/pict/vin1.jpg
All the photos so far look different then the model. The real ones look smaller and more like just the tank section on a flatcar. hummmmm This one says Atlas Austria on the bottom.
Vinegar, Hmmm, reminds me of when I first hired out...There used to be a pickle factory located on the Central California Traction in Stockton and the CCT main used to go right through it. There was a lot of street running involved so we were always tossing lighted fusees to protect the crossings. As we passed between the brine tanks of the pickle factory, the old head that I was working with tossed a fusee into one of them and stated, "don't eat the red ones kid". I will never forget that as long as I live.
That one is in St Louis at the Museum of Transportation. Maybe Trix should have made this one because the prototype was made by Fleishmann.
It is a prototypical car-- or a representation that was reasonable for 1960's N Scale!-- but I don't recall exactly where I saw the information. (I see on my A1G page I wrote about the same thing... better get to that research already!) Atlas did do a second run during the Second Generation, and then E-R Models brought some more in. Photos of the E-R models cars are out on the A1G page as well.
Not mine....but found it on ebay. Atlas-Milwaukee Vinegar Tank Car-N Scale - eBay (item 110435058833 end time Sep-21-09 19:05:06 PDT)
Jerry, the prototype of your car is in the Freight Car Pictorial (R.J.Wayner, without year) on page 31. It is numbered MVX 10 and has roughly the same proportions as the model. The caption says that it was constructed by Chicago Freight Car and Parts Company in the late 1940s. The sides appear to be white. I could scan it for you if you want that, but I will not upload it to TrainImages because I do not know if it is still copyrighted. hth Michael
