Folks, There has been a lot of discussion in the past on numbers of home road cars. Dave Nelson figures, if I remember correctly, were all based on information from 1950. Would this mix of cars be the

Guy and Bill, This is probably getting way off-topic, but the Keeley Institute (source of the Keeley Cure Bill mentioned) was a well known sanitarium around the turn of the century. It was (IIRC)

Timothy O'Connor (I thought only his mother called him "Timothy") tries to throw us off the scent and wants us to look south to the Mississippi delta country, Bay St Louis, Mississippi, to be exact,

They all agree on what a Keeley can was... http://www.railroadextra.com/glossry1.Html http://www.ksry.com/terms.htm http://wewood7.freeyellow.com/C-Cy.html But then, maybe Stephen (Mr. Plagiarism)

Max, The question is, how small a stream? Certainly the water supply available from a tender is large enough to cool a journal -- but a can of water (of what size?) hung from a small hook on a car

Max, the top speed of the Cass Shay's is... ? Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim: Go look at any Shays in rigourous service, say Cass for instance. All of the engines have been fitted with small diameter piping with a series of petcocks and small lines extending vertically

Bill, I don't doubt that you and Guy are correct, but I can't imagine that a can of water hung over a journal would have any measurable effect on the temperature of the bearing. I mean, a bearing can

Guy, The can hanging on SP 5 is way to clean to be used for oil. I got the name from a retired D&RGW engineer. Later the name was confirmed by Fred Picker in his book _Railroading in Texas_.

I was out of town when this interesting thread erupted. Bill Kelly's answer sounds good to me. But the contention that early cars did not have spring-loaded journal box lids is, I think, not

to Victor, In 1935, Decatur shop had a program to replace wood sides with steel on cars in the 45400 - 46001 series. These cars had 5/5/6 corrugated ends and wood or steel doors. Some of these

In the book "Three Barrels of Steam" there is a photo of a UP 5090 4- 10-2, and the author makes a reference to "keelies" being used to cool the journals of the tender truck bearings when they ran

These hooks were called "Hot Box Cooler Hooks". They were on SP's cars built from about 1912 till around 1942 or so. They were also on UP's cars and probably other Harriman influenced cars. They are

In a message dated 2/27/02 7:30:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, wbkelly@... writes: << These hooks were called "Hot Box Cooler Hooks". They were on SP's cars built from about 1912 till around

and Guy Wilber noted: It's still there, but won't be there for long -- just as soon as magi.com realizes that I'm a little annoyed with their service and don't plan to renew... well, you can guess

Guy Wilber responds ... service and/or sill Well I'll be darned. I, like Larry Jackman, have never seen a journal box lid that wasn't sprung to stay open when that was desired. I now wonder if

Sorry about the duplicate post. The photo is in the photo section. Victor Baird

Chet and all: The discussion on Wabash single sheath automobile box cars got me to thinking about one I photographed in the Wolcottville, Indiana Gravel Pit about 1974. A second look revealed that

Hi, A while ago, I found a page that listed various ORERs and CBCs that people owned. Anyone know where that website is? thanks Dave

Chet and all: The recent discussion of Wabash single sheath box cars got me to thinking about one I photographed in the gravel pit at Wolcottville, Indiana in 1974. A second look revealed that it