1930’s Private Owner Tank Wagons Photographs Wayne Brindle unless noted
Wayne Brindle
Private Owner Shell Tank Wagons In my article in the December 2013 NZ Model Railway Journal I referred to a photo (from T Bradley) and a drawing (in the above article) of two Shell Tank Cars with Red lettering on Yellow tanks. I decided that due a lack of suitable kits available that I would scratch build the
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two Tank Cars, so I got in the brass sheet, channel, angle and T sections.
2018 Easter Convention coming up it was time to complete the Tank Cars.
Building of the wagons proceeded at a pace until the stage I had the wagons ready to fit the bogies, but no tank or end restraint framing. Then other tasks got in the road and they were put away.
The tanks were turned from a length of 32 mm OD plastic water pipe, and the ends are 4mm thick Evergreen styrene sanded to shape. The domes are two pieces of Evergreen tube; the inner one had a sheet styrene cap that was drilled in
Then towards the end of 2017 and the
NZ Model Railway Journal September 2018
