Sweet Liquid Series - N Scale - Start Date March 2021 

Special food-grade tank cars have been used to transport a variety of sweet concentrates from distribution centers to factories all over the United States. Commodities such as corn syrup, cane syrup, honey, molasses and others were commonly shipped in bulk by rail in heated tank cars to processing plants, chocolate factories, breweries and soft drink factories. Sometimes adorned by bright and flashy artwork, they were colorful “stand-outs” in any manifest freight train. 

This Sweet Liquid Tank Car Series will feature twelve prototypically accurate 39’ Single Dome Tank Cars in N Scale.

Car 1 - Bee Hive Corn Syrup  49104 - rel 3/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is is yellow with blue belly and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in October 1949, and serviced in 1961, this car belonged to a series of 8 cars painted similarly for the St. Lawrence Starch Company, of Port Credit, Ontario. Used to transport corn syrup, they could be found in service between Port Credit and numerous candy and food companies in eastern Canada through the early 1980s.

Car 2 - Hubinger Co - NATX 18156 - rel 4/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957, this uninsulated tank car was owned by NATX and leased to the Hubinger Company of Keokuk, Iowa, and was used for corn syrup loading. The J.C. Hubinger Brothers Company was founded in 1887 and was a producer of starch.

Car 3 - Flow Sweet - GATX 64057 - rel 5/2021

This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with black lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Owned by General American Transportation Corp. and leased to Flo-Sweet Refined Syrups and Sugars Inc. Flo-Sweet, based in Yonkers, NY, was the first domestic producer of liquid sugar, with first production in 1927. Previously, liquid sugars were imported from Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Car 4 - Miranda Sugar - MSX 1 - rel 6/2021

This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Arch Bar trucks. Lettered for the Miranda Sugar Company, this insulated and heated tank car was built in 1919 for the Warner Sugar Refining Company, of Edgewater, N.J. In 1927, Warner was purchased by the National Sugar Refining Company, becoming the largest producer of refined sugar in the United States at the time.

Car 5 - Domino Sugar - 86127 - rel 7/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with red and yellow herald and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1960, this DOT103W class tank car was owned by General American Transportation Corporation and leased to Domino Foods, Inc. for use in liquid cane sugar processing. Founded in 1901 in New York, Domino Foods quickly became a renowned brand in the United States. Today, Domino Foods is the largest sugar company in the USA, with three large sugar refineries on the East Coast.

Car 6 - H.J. Gilbert Molasses - 1007 - rel 8/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Lettered for the H.J. Gilbert Company of Savannah, GA, this insulated and heated tank car was built in 1926. Molasses is a product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets, and is used as a sweetener and flavorant in foods and is also used in the beer brewing process.

Car 7 - Imperial Sugar GATX - 30465 - Rel 9/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is grey with black lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Imperial Sugar was founded in 1843 by Samuel May Williams in Sugar Land, Texas, and today is one of the largest U.S. sugar producers. This car was owned by General American Transportation Corporation and leased to Imperial to carry liquified sugar products from their Texas refinery to various distributors across the country.

Car 8 - Sweet Pure Molasses - ILX 616 - Rel 10/2021
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.

Car 9 - McCahan Sugar Refining Comany 25 - Rel 11/2021
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Archbar trucks. Built in April 1920, this car was owned and operated by the W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining Company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This 50-ton, non-insulated car had an 8,105 gallon capacity. The W.J. McCahan Company was founded in 1892, and in 1944 was sold to the American Sugar Refining Company.

Car 11 - Industrial Molasses Co - Rel 1/2022
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, producer of Molasses for industrial purposes as a binding agent for mineral briquettes, printing pigments, and even tires.

Car 12 - Mangels Herold Co 801 - Rel 2/2022
Built in 1926 by American Car & Foundry, this single-dome, 8,000-gallon tank car with Archbar trucks was owned by Mangels, Herold Co. Inc, a syrup manufacturer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Mangels first produced their famous “King Syrup” in 1901, a corn and sugar combination, often used to accompany pancakes, waffles and other breakfast items across the United States as “America’s Finest Table Syrup!”