Prototype: Standard design tank cars, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB). Older design with pressed metal trucks and brakeman‘s platforms. Privately owned cars painted and lettered for VTG United Tank Storage and Transportation, Inc., Hamburg, and BP Gasoline and Petroleum, Inc., Hamburg. The cars look as they did at the start of the Sixties. Model: The cars have special quiet-running trucks. They also have separately applied ladders and catwalks. The cars have separately applied tank signs. All of the cars have different car numbers, are individually packaged and marked. Length over the buffers per car 14.2 cm / 5-5/8“. DC wheel set per car 4 x 32376004. This tank car set is the right add-on for the class 50 steam freight locomotive with a cabin tender that can be found under item number 37835.
