10-12-2021, 08:22 AM
Varney Tank Cars.
On Jan 27-2021 I posted here in this Vintage HO Trains thread some photos and info on Varney tank cars. Varney made HO tank cars which maybe were about 8 to 10 thousand gallon types. Most were made in two types riveted seams and welded seams. I do remember I mentioned that this certain tank car had two different recording numbers. Sinclair was the road name I spoke of. Actually in the Sinclair road name the common number is SDRX 38001. I showed the rare one SDRX 38000. 38001 is made in the two different tank styles both riveted and welded seams. A third Sinclair tank car was made by Varney. This one is painted black and numbered SORX 8847. Now though all 3 are branded Varney on their bottoms, one was not sold by Varney but by Penn Line. Varney made this special for Penn-Line and was used in Penn lines, I think, only set that had a tank car in it. You can look online at the Hoseeker site and view the catalogs they have. You will see no tank car in any of them. I do remember seeing another Penn Line catalog, and don’t recall the date on it, which showed a set with a black Sinclair tank car in it. I do believe that this black tank car I have is this Penn Line version of the Sinclair tank car. I will post all three Varney branded Sinclair tank cars. Am waiting for a Greenberg guide on Varney trains to be delivered. A fellow (friend) collector said the information is in this guide book. It is very hard to find info on HO cars specially made for release by other concerns. I do hope I wont have to edit this post.
Frank
On Jan 27-2021 I posted here in this Vintage HO Trains thread some photos and info on Varney tank cars. Varney made HO tank cars which maybe were about 8 to 10 thousand gallon types. Most were made in two types riveted seams and welded seams. I do remember I mentioned that this certain tank car had two different recording numbers. Sinclair was the road name I spoke of. Actually in the Sinclair road name the common number is SDRX 38001. I showed the rare one SDRX 38000. 38001 is made in the two different tank styles both riveted and welded seams. A third Sinclair tank car was made by Varney. This one is painted black and numbered SORX 8847. Now though all 3 are branded Varney on their bottoms, one was not sold by Varney but by Penn Line. Varney made this special for Penn-Line and was used in Penn lines, I think, only set that had a tank car in it. You can look online at the Hoseeker site and view the catalogs they have. You will see no tank car in any of them. I do remember seeing another Penn Line catalog, and don’t recall the date on it, which showed a set with a black Sinclair tank car in it. I do believe that this black tank car I have is this Penn Line version of the Sinclair tank car. I will post all three Varney branded Sinclair tank cars. Am waiting for a Greenberg guide on Varney trains to be delivered. A fellow (friend) collector said the information is in this guide book. It is very hard to find info on HO cars specially made for release by other concerns. I do hope I wont have to edit this post.
Frank
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