GATX Vinyl Chloride Pressurized "Railwhale"

[nyandw]

A pressurizied 6 axle vinyl chloride "Railwhale" tank car. Holban Yard, NY LIRR 1971. Any details on this car prototype and how to go about a model?

 

[mbinsewi]

To find a prototype photo of this car, you need a reporting mark, which I'm thinking is GATX, and a car number.

Here's a link to GATX 94688, side ladders, no running board, 6 axle, and looks like the same series that you show,  As far as modeling it, " how to go about a model" is up to you and your imagination. 

http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/railwhales/bynumber/gatx094650-094706.htm

So, are looking for a kit?  or maybe someone that has model this?  You'll have to search around.  If you had a car number,

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/  would be a good start to find the exact prototype.

You might try to find an expert tank car modeler, tankcarsrule, and see if he has modeled this, or a similar car.

Mike.

EDIT:  The first link was live, until I posted.  Copy and paste.

["JaBear"]

Here’s a link to tankcarsrule site……

https://www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=53243414%40N00&page=11&details=1

…and if this is the class of car, follow the Google bread crumbs. Bobby mentions using two Athearn 62” cars on another forum.

Cheers, the Bear.

[mbinsewi]

Thanks Bear.  I see he has just what the OP is asking for, on the first page of Bobby's photos, along with progress photos.  Perfect.  The man is an artist.

Mike.

[nyandw]

It's GATX-tank-car-98222. I was interested in the use of this two hull pressu.rized car that carries vinyl chloride. Would this be used in toxic cleanup? Or?  Thanks folks for the start

[mbinsewi]

Well, I guess to have to research it further, as you have done in other forums.  Seems like it could have been used in toxic clean-ups.

Mike.

[dehusman]

Vinyl chloride is a feedstock for making plastic, as in PVC poly vinyl chloride.  They were not used "for clean ups" they were used for transportation of feedstocks, they were just a large car.

[nyandw]

 

More info:

 

Vinyl chloride monomer is a compressed liquefied gas. It is extremely flammable (flash point -108 deg. F), and is toxic to breathe. It would only be useful in a chemical processing facility which could polymerize it into poly(vinyl chloride) which is what's used as electrical insulation and backyard wading pools. The Alchemist can't think of any plant on LI, then or now, that could use it. If the car was consigned to a customer on Long Island I think it must have been carrying something other than vinyl chloride?

 

it was likely headed from/to Hooker Chemical in Hicksville, which later became Ruco Polymer (and finally Bayer Chemical before closing). A good piece of evidence - the EPA's superfund site information for that facility shows vinyl & polyvinyl chlorides as contaminants in the soil.