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Model Railroading > ATLAS 89’ channel side flatDate: 05/03/22 11:19 ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: fbe 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. Date: 05/03/22 15:01 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: turbine Date: 05/03/22 15:05 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: fbe Thank you, turbine. Did you turn the image on a laptop or a desk top?
Date: 05/03/22 16:40 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: turbine you're welcome. I rotated the image on my PC using Photoshop...
Date: 05/03/22 17:21 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: CPR_4000 Is that car a former piggyback or trilevel rack car? Deck looks very low. Prototype must be close to 50 years old by now.
Date: 05/03/22 17:27 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: fbe The car number is PTTX 602131. I have no idea of the car history.
Date: 05/03/22 17:35 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: toledopatch CPR_4000 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 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. Date: 05/03/22 17:35 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: alongthejointline 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?
Date: 05/03/22 17:36 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: toledopatch alongthejointline Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 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. Date: 05/03/22 18:33 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: RRBMail 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?
Date: 05/03/22 18:43 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: alongthejointline 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 Date: 05/03/22 18:45 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: tomstp 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.
Date: 05/03/22 19:27 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: MP4093 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.
Date: 05/03/22 20:00 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: toledopatch MP4093 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 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. Date: 05/05/22 22:29 Re: ATLAS 89’ channel side flat Author: EricSP RRBMail Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 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. |