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Walthers has been making some good models of tank cars in the recent past and I've managed to collect several of them. The cars I'm most satisfied with are the 65' LPG cars. The funnel flow cars tend to fit together less reliably and require that you have some matching paint on hand to touch up the seams. Atlas makes superb tank cars as well, but as you mentioned, they are expensive. And like the previous reply mentioned they do have very free rolling wheels, but I don't like the face of the wheel. In fact, I remember a guy from Caboose Hobbies mentioning something about the axle length of Atlas wheels being too long for some other manufacturer's trucks. Personally, I prefer Proto 2000 wheels to Kadee, Jaybee, and Atlas. Intermountain semi-scale wheels are excellent as well. Anyway, you could also try Model Die Casting Roundhouse. They make a 30' and a 50' frameless tank car. To combat the high prices of tank cars, you can pick a 12 car set of ADM white tanks on their web page for 50 bucks. Nobody says you can't repaint them. That's what I did. And one last suggestion - ebay. I do a search once a week for "tank car" on ebay and I've found some good deals. A word of advice, though: try finding sets of cars to bid on. A $3 car on ebay can become a $10 car after shipping. Good Luck on your search. RCHarris
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