Book Güterwagen Volume 9.1 Chemical Tank Car Länderbahn and DRG

Available from July 2021: Railway Documentation 2020 - Freight Car Volume 9.1 - Chemical Tank Car Länderbahn and DRG - 144 pages with 370 photos and 90 drawings - Format 21.8 × 29.7 cm - Hardcover - Stefan Carstens, Harald Westermann

The image of the mineral oil tank wagons was shaped for decades by the different corporate colors of the private advertisers, but all wagons were simple steel tanks on wheels.
This is different with chemical tank wagons: In order to meet the requirements of z. In order to cope with sometimes aggressive and poisonous cargo, boilers had to be made of special materials or coated on the inside. Then there were the pot and bottle wagons, wine barrel and tank wagons as well as wagons for the transport of compressed gases, carbon dioxide and liquid oxygen. When researching the topic, so much information came together that it became necessary to split the topic in two. In the first part, Freight Cars Volume 9.1, the prehistory and the wagons built up to 1950 are shown on 144 pages with around 370 photos and 90 drawings; some of them were still in use until the 1990s.