378-002 14T Anchor-Mounted Tank Wagon 'National Benzole' Silver No. 855 1-87-Scale Steel Frame Crane

Steel Frame Crane

New D70TR traction motors were standard and controlling all of this power and locomotive function was EMD’s new EM2000 microprocessor

Comes with a variety of signs

Based on an engine shed that was used at the Dinorwic Slate Quarry

With the DCC decoder interface upgraded to Plux22

378-002 14T Anchor-Mounted Tank Wagon 'National Benzole' Silver No. 855 1-87-Scale Steel Frame CraneEarly 14 Ton Tank Wagons with timber saddles, cradles and wire hawsers were built in response to the need for oil products to fuel Britains rapid development during the early twentieth century, along with two world wars. As the hostilities of World War Two drew to a close, a new design of tank with a central anchor mechanism securing the tank to the chassis was agreed between the private operators, the Petroleum Board and the railway companies.