Lanes Trains Tank Cars

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I do not have many tank cars completed right now. I have 5 cars made by Overland for the N.A.S.G. that I still have to finish.

Jones & Laughlin Tank Cars

The J&L tank car was S Scale’s first piece of commercially made brass rolling stock made by NWSL in 1972.

This is my J&L tank car. I replaced the upper handrails using pipe fittings and phosphor bronze wire. I also made the Carmer Cut levers. The trucks were made by my friend and fellow brass basher Rusty Rustermier.

I would like to thank my good friend Ed Kelly for informing me about the history of this car a mere few days after I finished it. It went something like this:

Ed, look at the Jones & Laughlin tank car I just finished. I did a lot of work to it.

It looks great Bill. But did you know that you would have almost never seen this car go by in a train because their entire purpose was traveling about 7 miles between two J&L plants?

No Ed, I did not know that. THANKS for telling me! J

On 10-21-06, I returned the favor to Ed by telling him that the lettering on his recently purchased M1 tender was vintage late 1930s, and would have not coexisted with Diesels. Ed quickly shrugged it off as a small insignificant detail and a “good enough”…..

Here are the other tank cars in my collection. They were made by the W. A. Drake Co. I featured them here to give the tank car page some color. They are all factory painted and have not been weathered yet.

Updated 11-29-08