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39’ Single Dome Tank Cars

Prototypical Features: • Accurate printing and paint schemes you have     come to expect from Micro-Trains® • Dome Tank Car • Fine Details • Truck Mounted Couplers • Magne-Matic Knuckle Couplers • Detailed brake wheel applied separately • Nicely Weighted • Jewel Case

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series

Special food-grade tank cars have been used to transport a variety of sweet concentrates from distribution centers to factories all over the United States. Commodities such as corn syrup, cane syrup, honey, molasses and others were commonly shipped in bulk by rail in heated tank cars to processing plants, chocolate factories, breweries and soft drink factories. Sometimes adorned by bright and flashy artwork, they were colorful “stand-outs” in any manifest freight train. This Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series will feature twelve prototypically accurate 39’ Single Dome Tank Cars in both N and Z scale. Contact your dealer to place your order today! (Renderings shown for representation only.)

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (1 of 12)   •   Bee Hive Corn Syrup

#MTL-530 00 490   CSRX   • Released March 2021   $29.95 retail ea. #530 00 490 #49104 This 39’ single dome tank car is is yellow with blue belly and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in October 1949, and serviced in 1961, this car belonged to a series of 8 cars painted similarly for the St. Lawrence Starch Company, of Port Credit, Ontario. Used to transport corn syrup, they could be found in service between Port Credit and numerous candy and food companies in eastern Canada through the early 1980s.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (2 of 12)   •   Hubinger Co.

#MTL-530 00 500   Hubinger Co.   • Released April 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 500 #18156 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957, this uninsulated tank car was owned by NATX and leased to the Hubinger Company of Keokuk, Iowa, and was used for corn syrup loading. The J.C. Hubinger Brothers Company was founded in 1887 and was a producer of starch.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (3 of 12)   •   Flo-Sweet

#MTL-530 00 510   Flo-Sweet   • Released May 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 510 #64057 This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with black lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Owned by General American Transportation Corp. and leased to Flo-Sweet Refined Syrups and Sugars Inc. Flo-Sweet, based in Yonkers, NY, was the first domestic producer of liquid sugar, with first production in 1927. Previously, liquid sugars were imported from Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (4 of 12)   •   Miranda Sugar

#MTL-530 00 520   Miranda Sugar   • Released June 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 520 #MSX 1 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Lettered for the Miranda Sugar Company, this insulated and heated tank car was built in 1919 for the Warner Sugar Refining Company, of Edgewater, N.J. In 1927, Warner was purchased by the National Sugar Refining Company, becoming the largest producer of refined sugar in the United States at the time.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (5 of 12)   •   Domino Sugar

#MTL-530 00 530   Domino Sugar   • Released July 2021   $29.95 retail ea. #530 00 530 #86127 This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with red and yellow herald and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1960, this DOT103W class tank car was owned by General American Transportation Corporation and leased to Domino Foods, Inc. for use in liquid cane sugar processing. Founded in 1901 in New York, Domino Foods quickly became a renowned brand in the United States. Today, Domino Foods is the largest sugar company in the USA, with three large sugar refineries on the East Coast.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (6 of 12)   •   Molasses Gilbert

#MTL-530 00 540   Molasses Gilbert   • Released August 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 540 #1007 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Lettered for the H.J. Gilbert Company of Savannah, GA, this insulated and heated tank car was built in 1926. Molasses is a product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets, and is used as a sweetener and flavorant in foods and is also used in the beer brewing process.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (7 of 12)   •   Imperial Sugar

#MTL-530 00 550   Imperial Sugar   • Released September 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 550 #30465 This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with black lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Imperial Sugar was founded in 1843 by Samuel May Williams in Sugar Land, Texas, and today is one of the largest U.S. sugar producers. This car was owned by General American Transportation Corporation and leased to Imperial to carry liquified sugar products from their Texas refinery to various distributors across the country.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (8 of 12)   •   Sweet Pure Molasses

#MTL-530 00 560   Sweet Pure Molasses   • Released October 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 560 #616 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in the mid-1950s for the Thomas E. Snyder Sons Company, a molasses shipper founded in 1941 and based in Chicago, Ill. This car was used through the early 1960s to carry liquified sugar products across the country from refineries to various distributors.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (10 of 12)   •   Union Starch

#MTL-530 00 570   Union Starch   • Released December 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 570 #6719 This 39' single dome tank car is red with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1921 by General American, this GATX-owned tank car was leased to Union Starch & Refining Co., of Granite City, Illinois. Used to carry corn-syrup and other liquids used in the commercial sugar manufacturing industry, it was used through the 1950s before being retired.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (9 of 12)   •   Sugar Refining Co.

#MTL-530 00 580   Sugar Refining Co.   • Released November 2021   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 580 #25 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Archbar trucks. Built in 1921 by General American, this GATX-owned tank car was leased to Union Starch & Refining Co., of Granite City, Illinois. Used to carry corn-syrup and other liquids used in the commercial sugar manufacturing industry, it was used through the 1950s before being retired.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (11 of 12)   •   Industrial Molasses

#MTL-530 00 590   Industrial Molasses   • Released January 2022   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 590 #75470 This 39’ single dome tank car is green with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Owned by General American Transportation Corp. and leased to The Industrial Molasses Corporation, based in Leonia, New Jersey. It was a producer of Molasses for industrial purposes as a binding agent for mineral briquettes, printing pigments, and even tires.

Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series (12 of 12)   •   Penick & Ford

#MTL-530 00 600   Penick & Ford   • Released February 2022   $29.95 retail ea. • $23.96 #530 00 600 #12553 Owned by General American Transportation Corp. and leased to the Penick & Ford Corn Company, of Shreveport, Louisiana, this car with Bettendorf trucks transported sugar cane and corn syrups. Penick & Ford was founded in 1897 by William S. Penick and James P. Ford, and served the food production industry.

Oil Tank Car Series

Starting July 2014 Micro-Trains began its newest freight car series; the Z scale Oil Tank Car Series! This exciting new Z scale series will feature 12 prototypically accurate and unique single dome oil tank cars. The series will not include a locomotive or caboose. This first release features the Cities Service Refining Co. tank car.

Cia Mexicana (OTCS #9)

#MTL-530 00 409   Cia Mexicana   • Released March 2015   $23.95 retail ea. • $19.16 #530 00 409 #851 This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering. Built in 1920 from an order of 10 on lot #9090. During the first half of the 20th century, AC&F sold many tank cars for export service.

Tank Cars

Undecorated Tankcar

#MTL-530 00 000   Undecorated   • Actual color may vary from photo   $14.45 retail ea. #530 00 000 #N/A Includes:   • Brake Wheel   • Micro Trains Line Trucks   • MTL Truck Mounted Couplers   • Back ordered until next production run!

Chicago Great Western

#MTL-530 00 360   CGW   • Released May 2014   $25.40 retail ea. • $20.32 #530 00 360 #CGW 264 This Tank Car ran the midwest region on roller bearing trucks. The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a Class 1, nicknamed the “Corn Belt Route” because it linked many cities in the Midwest. Despite CGW doing reasonably well during the 1950s and 1960s the railroad merged with C&NW in July 1, 1968. Road#264 CGW in this series was the only one painted green, it was used for lube oil loading only.

Milwaukee Road

#MTL-530 00 431   Milwaukee Road   • Released January 2016   $25.70 retail ea. • $20.56 #530 00 431 #MR 908310 #530 00 432 #MR 908318 These 39’ single dome tank cars with Bettendorf trucks were built by ACF in the late 20’s through the 1940’s and were used by the railroad in captured service supplying water to remote stations and facilities that had limited well access.

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