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BGs - gas wagons

 

 

In the beginning of Finnish railroads history the passanger wagons had gas lanterns. Bigger station had gas factories and the gas was transported to the filling places with tank wagons. Wagon with three tanks were built in 1892 - 1949 with numbers 030'801 - 030'818. First the series was named Gs, 1920 they were renamed as XGs and 1950 as BGs. In the beginning the tanks were light gray and during WWII they were painted with silver paint. In 1960 the wagons got their orange warning stripe.

Decals for tanks. The image is printed to a clear/white decal paper. Click the picture for hires image..