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Rock Island box car?
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The Ebay seller says this is a Rock Island box car. Anyone
recognize it? http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c248/myoungwisc/May%20Slides/riBracedBoxcar_unk_unk_stamped.jpg Tim O |
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mcindoefalls
--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
USRA S/S, no? With newer trucks and AB brakes. Walt Lankenau |
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Richard Hendrickson
On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
The Ebay seller says this is a Rock Island box car. AnyoneThe design is USRA 50 ton single sheathed. Definitely not Rock Island, which owned no such box cars. And definitely not built for the USRA, as the ends are 7/8 corrugated, not 5/5/5. I'm not aware of any US railroads that had such cars, but the Canadian Pacific had a lot of them built in the early 1920s. Richard Hendrickson |
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rwitt_2000
--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...>
wrote: The press steel bracing show signs of repairs where they trapped water and it received A-B scheduled brakes, but without any paint or stenciling visible the owner remains a mystery. If the photographer had looked at the trucks and noted the railroad initials cast in the sideframes Tim would have his answer. Bob Witt |
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Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Bob Witt wrote:
If the photographer had looked at the trucks and noted the railroad initials cast in the sideframes Tim would have his answer.Provided, of course, that the trucks were still the owning railroad's trucks. I've seen plenty of counter examples. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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