39' Single Dome Tank Car

Z Scale Sweet Liquid #8

Sweet Pure Molasses
Road Number ILX 616

This series was pre-ordered in September 2020 - Releasing starts March 2021

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

39' Single Dome Tank Car

Z Scale Sweet Liquid #9

McCahan Sugar Refining Co.
Road Number #25

This series was pre-ordered in September 2020 - Releasing starts March 2021

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

39' Single Dome Tank Car

Z Scale Sweet Liquid #10

Union Starch
Road Number #6719

This series was pre-ordered in September 2020 - Releasing starts March 2021

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.

39' Single Dome Tank Car

Z Scale Sweet Liquid #11

Industrial Molasses
Road Number #GATX 75470

This series was pre-ordered in September 2020 - Releasing starts March 2021

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.

39' Single Dome Tank Car

Z Scale Sweet Liquid #12

Penick and Ford Corn Company
Road Number #GATX 12553

This series was pre-ordered in September 2020 - Releasing starts March 2021

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.