Rail whales: 8-axle tank cars.

[Gumboots]

Just found out about these today. They have been used in Russia and Australia, as well as in the US, but I'd never heard of them before. They're quite impressive beasties.
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http://tonysissons.zenfolio.com/p936101809
http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/railwhales/index.htm
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... x?id=52512
http://hointerchange-seaboardcoast.blog ... -cars.html

These are not hard to model, no worse than ordinary tank cars, and are good fun, so I think we should have some. I have to do some modifications to the existing tank car pack anyway, to fix some minor bugs, and 8-axle units would fit well in the 1975-1999 era. They didn't exist before the late 1960's and are going out of use now, so 1975-1999 is a good fit for both RT3 model size and historical accuracy.

Edit: Roughed one out, just for fun.
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Still needs work, which I won't get to this week, but doing this beast won't be any drama.