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Congress enacted the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and we must now note that these ARE NOT TOYS, AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 14. These products are Model Railroad Equipment and Accessories intended for use by adults.

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

General American Tank Car Co.

#MTL-530 00 041 GATX
• Released April 2008
$~~18.10~~ retail ea.

#530 00 041

#530 00 042

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Union Pacific

#MTL-530 00 050 Union Pacific
• Released November 2006
$~~18.10~~ retail ea.

#530 00 050

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Baltimore & Ohio

#MTL-530 00 061 Baltimore & Ohio
• Released August 2019
$~~24.50~~ retail ea

#530 00 061

#X418

#530 00 062

#X419

These 39’ single dome tank cars are black with white lettering and run on Andrews trucks. Built in the 1940s, and later relegated for maintenance-of-way use in the 1960s, they have a 100,000-pound capacity, and ride on friction bearing trucks.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy

#MTL-530 00 070 CB&Q

#530 00 070

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Southern Pacific

#MTL-530 00 081 Southern Pacific
• Released September 2013
$~~22.90~~ retail ea.

#530 00 081

#SP 60166

#530 00 082

#SP 60190

Painted black with white herald and lettering; built in March 1942 by Great American Transportation Corporation (GATCO), serviced in July 1962, and run the Central Western District on Bettendorf trucks. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, the Southern Pacific had over 11,000 miles of railway from Chicago, south to New Orleans, and west to San Francisco and Portland, OR. On August 9, 1988, the ICC approved the sale of the SP to Rio Grande Industries. The new system was named Southern Pacific Lines. SP & UP merged Sept. 11, 1996.

Milwaukee Road

#MTL-530 00 120 Milwaukee Road

#530 00 120

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Montana Rail Link

#MTL-530 00 210 MRL
• Released TBD
$~~21.10~~ retail ea.

#530 00 210

#100015 MWD

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Delaware & Hudson

#MTL-530 00 221 Delaware & Hudson
• Released March 2008
$~~20.50~~ retail ea.

#530 00 221

#530 00 222

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie

#MTL-530 00 231 P&LE
• Released November 2008
$~~20.50~~ retail ea.

#530 00 231

#P&LE X103001

#530 00 232

#P&LE X103000

These 40’ tank cars are painted green with white lettering on the sides and ends. They were built in July 1928, serviced in September 1978, and run on Bettendorf trucks. Both PL&E X103001 and P&LE X103000 are nonrevenue tank cars used to transport diesel fuel to the McKees Rocks Yard in the borough of McKees Rocks outside Pittsburgh, PA. McKees Rocks was home to a yard, major locomotive rebuilding, and freight car repair and general maintenance.

Standard Oil Co.

#MTL-530 00 251 Standard Oil Co.
• Released April 2009
$~~21.80~~ retail ea.

#530 00 251

#530 00 252

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Kopper's Co. Tankcar

#MTL-530 00 271 Kopper's Co.
• Released August 2009
$~~22.60~~ retail ea.

#530 00 271

#KPCX 2105

#530 00 272

#KPCX 2129

These 39’ single dome tank cars are painted black with red, black and white logo and white and orange lettering. They were built in November 1943, serviced in January 1952 and run on Bettendorf trucks. Kopper’s tank cars were used to haul coal tar, the base material for the five main chemical products: Coal pitch essential for steel and aluminum production; carbon black for rubber vulcanization; creosote for wood treatment; and naphthalene and phthalic anhydride for plastics and polyester.

U.S. Army

#MTL-530 00 281 U.S. Army
• Released December 2009
$~~20.20~~ retail ea.

#530 00 281

#USAX 10936

#530 00 282

#USAX 10986

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Sunoco

#MTL-530 00 291 Sunoco
• Released April 2010
$~~24.20~~ retail ea.

#530 00 291

#530 00 292

Includes:
• 39’ Single Dome Tank Car
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Sun Oils Company

#MTL-530 00 310 Sun Oils Company
• Released August 2011
$~~21.75~~ retail ea. • $17.40

#530 00 310

#DR&URR 1950

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black w/ white Sun Oils logo and white lettering. It was built by American Car & Foundry in Milton, PA; runs on Bettendorf trucks. It was leased to Sun Oil and used the Delaware River & Union Railroad reporting marks until the dissolution of that railroad in the 1930s. Sun Oil got its start on March 27, 1886, when Joseph Newton Pew and Edward O. Emerson, partners in The Peoples Natural Gas Company of Pittsburgh, PA, made a move to diversify their company. The co had acquired pipelines, leases, storage tanks and more to emerge as one of Ohio’s leading suppliers of crude oil.

Colorado Animal By-Products Mfg

#MTL-530 00 320 CTTX
• Released October 2012
$~~21.75~~ retail ea.

#530 00 320

#CTTX 8401

• •	39’ Single Dome Tank Car Colorado Animal By-Products Mfg (CTTX)

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This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black with white herald and lettering. It was built in 1930 by the American Car & Foundry Company in Milton, PA, for the Canton Tank Car Company, then leased to the Colorado Animal By-Products Manufacturing Company of Denver, CO. It runs on Bettendorf trucks.

Canadian Pacific

#MTL-530 00 350 Canadian Pacific
• Released May 2013
$~~23.35~~ retail ea.

#530 00 350

#CP 389940

A 39’ single dome tank car, CP 389940 was used by Canadian Pacific to transport diesel oil throughout Canada. Built on June 20, 1912, this tanker was nearing the end of it’s 60 years of service by the time it was serviced in February, 1963. This car bears lettering and herald in white and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Capacity is shown in both Imperial and U.S. gallons for service in both Canada and the U.S.

Chicago Great Western

#MTL-530 00 370 CGW
• Released May 2014
$~~25.40~~ retail ea.

#530 00 370

#CGW 290

These 39’ Single Dome Tank Cars 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. Kerosene was the commodity hauled in the Road #290 aluminum tanker.

Babe Ruth Series

#MTL-530 00 380 Babe Ruth Car #5
• Released October 2015
$~~29.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 380

#NATX 375

Freight Car #5 • 39’ Single Dome Tank Car

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted white with red letteirng and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Leased from North American this tank car was probably used to transport bulk corn syrup or other liquid sweetener.

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Union Pacific

#MTL-530 00 391 Union Pacific
• Released August 2019
$~~24.50~~ retail ea.

#530 00 391

#UP 69657

#530 00 392

#UP 69663

These 39’ single dome tank cars are black with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1924 by American Car & Foundry, these 12,500-gallon capacity tank cars were reconditioned in Omaha and renumbered to the 69500 – 69740 series in 1955. They were used for everything from molasses to fuel oil.

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.

Cities Service Refining Company • CSRX (OTCS #1)

#MTL-530 00 401 CSRX
• Released July 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 401

#CSRX 1449

Built in 1924 at the Milton Plant, painted black with white lettering, and runs on Arch Bar trucks. Henry Latham Doherty formed the Cities Service Company on September 2, 1910. By 1918 Cities Service companies operated seven oil refineries, five of which were in Oklahoma, and were active in nine Oklahoma oil fields.

Shell Oil Company • SEPX (OTCS #2)

#MTL-530 00 402 Shell Oil Co.
• Released August 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 402

#SEPX 16

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black with white lettering. This interior-coiled tank car had a 10,153 gallon capacity and ran on 50-ton trucks. Rd# SEPX 16 was one of 15 ordered on Lot #831 built in 1929 at the Milton Manufacturing Plant.

Kanotex Refining Company • KOTX (OTCS #3)

#MTL-530 00 403 KOTX
• Released September 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 403

#KOTX 503

Kanotex Refining Company, a regional oil refinery and petroleum products distributor, began operation in Caney, Kansas in 1909. The Kan-O-Tex name referred to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas as the states in which the company originally marketed its products. This 39’ Single Dome Tank Car is painted black with white lettering and runs on black Arch Bar Trucks. Kanotex #503 is a Class 2 tank car from series 501-506 and was built in 1915 with a capacity weight of 80,000.

Union Oil Company • UOCX (OTCS #4)

#MTL-530 00 404 Union Oil Co.
• Released October 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 404

#UOCX 10390

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black with white lettering. Union Oil Company of California is a defunct company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer from the late 19th century into the early 21st century. It was head quartered in El Segundo, CA. It was founded on October 17, 1890.

Diamond Petroleum • COSX (OTCS #5)

#MTL-530 00 405 Diamond Petroleum
• Released November 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 405

#UOCX 10390

This 39’ single dome tank car is a ARA Spec III, non-coiled insulated tank car with 40 Ton trucks. It was built in 1927 at the ACF Milton PA Plant for Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation.

Gulf Oil - GRCX (OTCS #6)

#MTL-530 00 406 GRCX
• Released December 2014
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#GRCX 5010

$19.16

This 39’ dome tank car is painted blue with white lettering and Gulf herald. Built in 1923, it carried petroleum for Gulf in its blue 10,140 gallon tank that’s riveted, has an expansion done and is heated and non-pressurized.

White Eagle - WEPX (OTCS #7)

#MTL-530 00 407 WEPX
• Released January 2015
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 407

#WEPX 627

This 39’ dome tank car is painted black with white lettering. Built by Milton in 1920 as part of Lot #8734 this 10,000 gallon MCB Class III, interior coiled tank car ran on Arch Bar trucks.

Pan-Am Oils • SHPX (OTCS #8)

#MTL-530 00 408 Pan-Am Oils
• Released February 2015
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 408

#SHPX 4133

This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. It was built in 1937 at the Milton plant from an order for 10 on Lot#1733 and leased to Pan American Petroleum Corp.

Sinclair Oil (OTCS #10)

#MTL-530 00 410 Sinclair Oil
• Released April 2015
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#SDRX 3611

$19.16

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black with white lettering and runs on Archbar trucks. Formed from the assets of eleven small petroleum companies in 1916, Sinclair is one of the oldest continuous names in the oil business. Until creation of products pipelines, Sinclair owned the biggest tank car fleet in the oil industry.

Texaco (OTCS #11)

#MTL-530 00 411 Texaco
• Released May 2015
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#TCX 9919

$19.16

This 39’ dome tank car is painted black with white lettering and runs on Archbar trucks. Built in 1930 by Milton Manufacturing from series 9750-9999. Texaco began as the Texas Fuel Company. It was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1901 when oil was discovered at Spindletop.

Kansas Oil (OTCS #12)

#MTL-530 00 412 Kansas Oil
• Released June 2015
$~~23.95~~ retail ea.

#530 00 412

#KORX 820

This 39’ dome tank car is painted black with white lettering and runs on Archbar trucks. Kansas Oil Refining Company, a regional oil refinery and petroleum products distributor, began operation in Caney, Kansas in 1909.

Spokane, Portland & Seattle

#MTL-530 00 451 SP&S
• Released May 2016
$~~24.70~~ retail ea.

#530 00 451

#SP&SX 38017

#530 00 452

#SP&SX 38024

These 39’ single dome tank cars are black with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1911 by Pressed Steel Company as part of series 38010-38039 these cars were used for company fuel delivery service as wood and coal powered locomotives gave way to oil fired steam plants. Many of these cars were re-assigned to MOW status in the early 1950s.

Denver & Rio Grande Western

#MTL-530 00 471 D&RGW
• Released February 2017
$~~23.50~~ retail ea.

#530 00 471

#X-2905

#530 00 472

#X-2906

These 39’ single dome tank cars are aluminum with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1919, these tank cars eventually reached retirement age from revenue service and were placed in a MOW capacity for the D&RGW. In this capacity, they carried a supply of potable water for track outfit gangs and were finally retired in the late 1970s.

Pennsylvania Railroad

#MTL-530 00 481 PRR
• Released April 2018
$~~23.50~~ retail ea.

#530 00 481

#PRR 498647

#530 00 482

#PRR 498651

These 39’ single dome tank cars are freight car red with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. In 1929, the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased fifty 8,000 gallon AC&F-built tank cars, and these were used in company oil service through the 1950s.

AT&SF

#14402-2 AT&SF Tankcar

Union Tankcar

#14403-2 Union Tankcar Company Tankcar

General American

#14404-2 General American Tankcar

Union Pacific

#14405-2 Union Pacific Tankcar

Baltimore & Ohio

#14406-2 Baltimore & Ohio Tankcar

Southern Pacific

#14408-2 Southern Pacific Tankcar

Mobil Oil

#14410-2 Mobil Oil Tankcar

Union Pacific

#14414-2 Union Pacific Tankcar

Great Northern

#14417-2 Great Northern Tankcar

Canadian National

#14419-2 Canadian National Tankcar

Canadian Pacific

#14420-2 Canadian Pacific Tankcar

Western Pacific

#14422-2 Western Pacific Tankcar

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