Finally, a smaller HO scale tank car !!!

Posted by David Barker on 20th Jun 2018

For years I've been looking for a smaller than 10,000 gallon tank car. In the 1960's, my grandparents retired to a very small rural community along the Missouri Pacific Lines. There was a spur on the St. Louis to Kansas track that always had a small tank car of gasoline, connected to a even smaller storage tank with a gravity operated pump. This supplied the farming community with fuel for decades. Now there's finally got a model that comes pretty close.
We also used to see a lot of these cars, no longer with wheels, up on concrete 'stilts' serving as storage for asphalt and other petroleum products, usually black, but occasionally painted silver if they served some other industry.
The HO scale world has a plethora of larger tank cars, but smaller ones have been very hard to come by, until now. BLI has done an awesome job in preparing and producing these tank cars. To me, they look great, run well, and simply can't be beat for a 1930's, 40's or 50's era railroad.