Athearn has announced new 20,000 Gallon GATC Tank Cars

History:

GATX’s North American tank car fleet consists of more than 59,000 cars with nearly 70 different types serving the chemical, petroleum, transportation, agriculture, food, mineral, and plastics markets. Major cargo groupings include general service and high pressure, and cars used to carry various types of acids and other specialty products. Customer logos can occassionally be found on GATX leased cars. These cars can be found interchanged all over North America on all major and short line railroads.

MODEL FEATURES:

•Scale profile brake wheel

•Newly-tooled roller bearing trucks

•Fully-assembledandready-to-runoutofthebox

•Body mounted McHenry knuckle couplers

•Weighted for trouble free operation

•Clear plastic jewel box for convenient storage

•Operates on Code55 and 80 rail

•Minimum radius:9 3/4 in

Order Due Date: December 27, 2019

Anticipated Delivery Date: November 2020