David, the file names (the left column) is in 3 parts - the
"SS-" indicates Standard Steel. The 45602 indicates
the Standard Steel Drawing Number. The .tif is the file type we
scan & store the files as. Hence the SS-45602.tif is the full
file name for the scan of that drawing. Which is itself
"traced from C.C.C.R. Co. Print 2704-D" - it shows the
end of the specific type along with posts that support it behind and the
manner in which the end is fastened to the roof (or vice-versa). It
is a 35" x 19" original on linen.
Scanned this May - would likely would never be scanned (in an
order-driven process). There are all sorts of interesting ends,
roofs, trucks and such - and hundreds of small parts - that wouldn't
normally have been scanned. The main reason I have been scanning these is
precisely that they wouldn't normally be ordered - and I wanted to
present a nice "cross section" of drawing types; as well as
railroad orders.
The plan is to obtain a collections management system, use the
information we have been entering as a feed to it and present a
searchable object on the web.
Towards that end too, we've been creating a "database (sic)" of
assets (manuals, photos, negatives, documents, film, indexes, etc.) for
the same purpose. Who knows we have hundreds of Trailmobile
negatives? Dating to *very* early in the company (1900s)? Or
EMD marine and maritime (portable) prime mover manuals? Or WW I
trench equipment drawings? Or Images of the test center in Hammond
for freight equipment; loading of tanks & equipment built in the
plants (as well as testing those vehicles); bombs & shells; ship
drawings; Plant drawings and photos; freight car scheme proposals; Vendor
drawings, etc. - along with the "normal" freight &
passenger car equipment drawings.
And...in terms of freight cars - 95% of drawings, Images & data *IS*
Steam era.
At 08:27 PM 6/8/2019, David via Groups.Io wrote:
This one could be
interesting:
SS-45602.tif?? Vulcan Corrugated Steel End - 1921 - 200 BAR Box
Cars
David Thompson
Bob Webber
