Thank youHere you go - This is a beauty
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RICHFIELD-...602064&hash=item2f1c3629fb:g:3jkAAOSwO9RbGsJ5
Well, I can't find a reference but I don't believe the exposed rotating wheel bearings on freight car axles existed in the 1950s. I would say 1963 would be the earliest. Personally I don't remember seeing any until the mid 1970s on large tank cars.I'm trying keep to the fifties era and older. What is a good choice for a high detail tank car. From my research so far I see that the cars of that Arrow had a frame under so would look for that design I like the atlas idea of rotating bearings truck axles
Well that is a delightful coincidence. I've started collecting tank cars from Tulsa OK, just because of proximity.Also fun researching the development and production of this actual car plus "SCO line, inc." Happens this is South Cotton Oil commpany located in Columbia, SC and also had a plant in Mecklenburg Co NC, the county in which we now reside. Sounds like the 5 degrees of seperation thing.
Now that I search my brain I certainly agree rotating axles did not appear till later I got caught up in the fact the model was using them sounded great for detail thank you so much for your suggestion I just placed an order