Model Railroading > ATLAS 89’ channel side flat

The Atlas #20 006 118 HO F89J Flat Car is available with 13 green coated brown pipes.  These are a good match for loads of oil pipe coming south of Canada for the oil pipeline connecting with the pipeline to Texas.

sorry the iPhone13 inverted the photo.

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Here you go. the car is no longer inverted...

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Thank you, turbine. Did you turn the image on a laptop or a desk top?

you're welcome. I rotated the image on my PC using Photoshop...

Is that car a former piggyback or trilevel rack car? Deck looks very low. Prototype must be close to 50 years old by now.

The car number is PTTX 602131.  I have no idea of the car history.

CPR_4000 Wrote:
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> Is that car a former piggyback or trilevel rack
> car? Deck looks very low. Prototype must be close
> to 50 years old by now.

I do believe Trailer Train refitted a lot of older intermodal flats to handle specialty loads like this, especially once TOFC loadings were eclipsed by doublestacks in well cars.

 

Yellow with conspicuity according to the box. I know what conspicuity means but, seriously, what the heck does Atlas intend to communicate by uing that word on a carton that contains a model?

alongthejointline Wrote:
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> Yellow with conspicuity according to the box. I
> know what conspicuity means but, seriously, what
> the heck does Atlas intend to communicate by uing
> that word on a carton that contains a model?

It's telling the prototype modeler that the model has conspicuity stripes on it, which dates it to the mid-2000s or later when the phased-in mandate for such stripes was established, even though the rest of the paint scheme is valid for more than a decade prior to that.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/22 17:40 by toledopatch.

Is this the same kind of flat that were often used to carry pipe loads in the the 1980s-90s on the Napa Valley Railroad? 

Many thanks, toldeopatch, for the information. Now I have read more about the striping as well as fiinding a 3M website selling it.
https://www.identi-tape.com/fra-conspicuity.html

We see a lot of that pipe on the UP in east Texas going west.  At times a train will have 20 of those loaded pipe cars.

This epoxy coated pipe is common and thousands of miles have been laid across this country for decades. It is not specific to any one job or location. I have been to the plants that manufacture it and seen train loads of it for years, it is everywhere.

MP4093 Wrote:
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> This epoxy coated pipe is common and thousands of
> miles have been laid across this country for
> decades. It is not specific to any one job or
> location. I have been to the plants that
> manufacture it and seen train loads of it for
> years, it is everywhere.

Agree -- the first time I recall seeing that sort of pipe load was on the head end of a westbound Conrail train at Cresson, Pa., in October, 1990. What I don't remember is what the lengths were.

RRBMail Wrote:
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> Is this the same kind of flat that were often used
> to carry pipe loads in the the 1980s-90s on the
> Napa Valley Railroad? 

Yes to Napa Pipe loads, no to Napa Valley Railroad. Napa Pipe was served by SP then CFNR.