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Maybe we should change the subject line here but i haven't. Responding to Chuck Yungkurth's and other earlier posts, the PRR called the "erection drawing" the "general arrangement" drawing. The

I don't disagree. But, consider this... At some point how things are drawn becomes the "drawing convention"... once that happens, the drawings are divorced from the actual fabrication process, because

Hi Brian, Thanks for the tip. I've checked out the order form photos on the web and there look to be some possiblities here. Now I have to dig out my equipment diagrams and reference

Hmm. I have a photo of late Huntington-era cars being assembled with underframes upside down--that would be 1902--so although I don't disagree that if you go back far enough, they were

I recall Santa Fe drawings were drawn from above the underframe. Topeka built them upside down and rolled them over wither in a turnover jig or with chains around the coupler shamks Tom

I'm going to jump back in here. I think the key point is all these "railroad drawings" we are discussing are really assembly drawings... that is, they draw more than one part, and show how the parts

The drawing that appeared in Car and Loco Cycs are not engineering drawings.  They were made in Simmons-Boardman's drafting department for publication in Railway Age and other magazines. As such,

Tim O'Connor wrote: I may have overgeneralized to say that ALL railroad draftsmen did ANYTHING. But sure, the reason could well be for convenience of whomever would use the drawing. But

Peter Ness wrote Peter They were not alone. The Southern Pacific/Texas&New Orleans never bought a single 40 foot single door box car over 10'0" IH -- almost 27,000 steel AAR box cars from 1937 to