HO (1:160) Atlas ACF 11K Tank Car: Hercules Powder Company #94991

With platform rails

Propane or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is both a naturally occurring product and a byproduct of the refining process. During the 1940s, the petroleum industry began marketing LPG as a cleaner and more efficient fuel than the existing coal and oil. Transporting LPG requires specially designed high-pressure tank cars. During the early 40s the only ACF tank car that qualified was the 10,500 gallon high-pressure tank car. After the war, ACF set out to design a whole new car for the emerging industry. As a result the 11,000 gallon tank car was introduced by ACF in 1947. Many thousands were built up through the mid-1950s.

The Atlas model faithfully reproduces this late steam and early diesel era tank car. The cars with top platform rails were used where there was no elevated loading and unloading facility. (The cars without the top platform rails were often specified for customers that had access to elevated loading and unloading facilities.)