Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi Elden,
Any chance you could forward to me one or
more of the emails in that discussion? I'd love to read thru them
Claus
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:38
PM
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re:
[RealSTMFC] Photos: 235, 000 Pound Casting, Very Short Flat Cars
Claus;
We were holding a side discussion on this, and absolutely
believe trucks were taken as war booty for use in the U.S.
post-WW1.
Cheap way of obtaining HD trucks!
Elden Gatwood
I'll add that
the trucks look identical to the ones on this car (see attached image). This
is a move of a gun on the PRR thru Altoona PA in Dec 1918. (Note that a lower
resolution copy of this same image is also available online at Blockedhttps://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME04655 )
Also, there is a
second image of a car, identical to Bethlehem Steel 900, this time with LV
reporting marks available online at Blockedhttps://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME04356 .
It is - somewhat surprisingly - in the Hagley PRR Photo Archive and it has a
PRR photo archive number ME4356 inscribed upon the negative! There is no
question in my mind that the LV car is the same car as Bethlehem
900.
I'm starting to
conclude that these trucks were moved and rebuilt/repurposed/resold at
least a few times in their lifetime.
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Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 21,
2020 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC]
Photos: 235,000 Pound Casting, Very Short Flat
Cars
Hi Bob, Bruce and
List Members,
The image Bruce
attached, of Bethlehem 900, sure looks a whole lot like this PRR car at the
link below...
And the trucks in
the images Bob posted sure look to be a match as
well.
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Sent: Saturday, July
18, 2020 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC]
Photos: 235,000 Pound Casting, Very Short Flat
Cars
Fascinating. These trucks are
identical to those under Bethlehem Steel 900 in the attached
photo.
The PRR
flat car(s) carrying "Big Bertha" to the Columbian Exposition were PRR
class FG, 5116a, 5116b, 5117a, and 5117b. Class FG could be assembled as
either a single car with 4 trucks, 2 span bolsters, and a bridge, or two
cars consisting a two trucks and a bridge
each.
Clearly,
the photo posted by Bob uses the load as the carbody, which was not at all
unusual. You can see the pivot points on each car under the
load.
Ed - My
interpretation of the numbering of the trucks is that the TWO in the photo
Bob posted are the trucks for PRR 425483. The bridge has been replaced by
the load. There are another two trucks and car body/bridge that would make
up 425484
I suspected that it was a PRR car….funny that it
doesn’t have any reporting marks other than the number, at least that I
noticed on the photo.
This may be the “car” used to haul the Krupp Gun
barrel to the 1893 Columbian Exposition. I don’t think I retained
any pictures of that car but the European-style “trucks” look
familiar.
Charlie Vlk
The drawbar is that big thing on top with all the
writing on it.
A question might be whether the whole assembly (car
and load) was ever mixing into a generic train, or was handled
individually. The second photo hints at the latter.
Maybe.
Too, a person might wonder how the subject car was
returned empty. Maybe that gon is carrying the "return
drawbar".
The car is listed in my November 1926 ORER as PRR 425483
and 425484 (In the photos, it's 425483 A and B). Capacity is listed
as 150,000 pounds. It's called a "Flat, Gun and Cable
Steel".
Ed
Edward
Sutorik
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at
11:37 AM, mel perry wrote:
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