The Trix brand offers the "ESSO" tank wagon, in N: 1/160th scale under reference 15420-08.
Tank wagon presentation,
Tank wagons were used to transport liquid products. In the early years of the railway, the need to transport liquid materials was important. This is why wagons called "tank wagons" had a chassis on which one or more tanks were placed.
It was in 1859, that the French industrial engineer, "Louis-Xavier Gargan" was invented the "tank wagons" where he filed a patent on 23 July 1859.
From 1918 tank wagons began to specialise according to their use.
There are many adapted models, such as:
- oil tanker
- chemical tanker
- liquefied gas transport
- calorifuged (with preheating equipment)
- bifoudre (for wine transport)
Introduction to the Trix brand,
The manufacturer Trix designs model trains under the scale HO: 1/87th. This brand offers a range called MiniTrix, reserved for the design of railway products under the scale N: 1/160th.
This rolling stock is renowned for its robustness and attention to detail, which is as close as possible to the original models. Trix mainly produces locomotives under a direct current operating system, known as "2-rail". However, most of their products are also designed under a "3 rail" alternating current system by the manufacturer Marklin.
