Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Photo: Seamless Pipe Fitting Load On GN Flat Car 60031 (1956)
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Schuyler Larrabee
Elden, that is DEFINITELY a well-hole flat. You can see in the panel where the LD LMT is shown that the bottom of the “pipe fitting” is below the deck. And all that bracing, the timbers and the tie rods, are clearly temporary.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 10:50 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Photo: Seamless Pipe Fitting Load On GN Flat Car 60031 (1956)
Bob, all;
These GN cars are very interesting. I know next to nothing about them, except what I can glean from photos. I believe it is a well flat, not a well HOLE flat, since it does not look like the floor supports are removable. I have wondered what GN needed these cars for, since it is usually an on-line customer that needed them. These shipments were just lucrative enough that RRs could be convinced the roster them, otherwise….not.
The side members are surprisingly slender for a more typical well flat, which generally had deep side sills, but there is that u/f, which indicates the well is not that deep….
Elden Gatwood
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via groups.io
Photo: Seamless Pipe Fitting Load On GN Flat Car 60031 (1956) A photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Blockedhttps://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM49938 Appears to be a well hole flat car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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