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Tank Car Reporting Marks
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Hi,
While I was looking for repack/lube markings I noticed something about almost all of the tank cars that I don't remember hearing talked about before/knowing about. Almost all of the have the reporting marks on the frame - as well as on the left end of the tank. Is that so they can be identified when the tank leaves the frame during a wreck? Something else? Is this a 'standard' and if so when was it introduced and/or repealed? - Jim B. |
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Tom Birkett <tnbirke@...>
Yes stenciling reporting marks on underframes was a standard going back at least to 1921. Two reasons for this: in case of a derailment when the tank and underframe can get separated and the fact that the tank in those days was not subject to time limits of usage but the underframe was (counter intuitive but that is the way it was and is at least until the 1990s.) I have a good photo of PSPX 13199 showing separate built dates for tank and underframe.
Tom Birkett Bartlesville, OK From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 1:16 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Tank Car Reporting Marks Hi, While I was looking for repack/lube markings I noticed something about almost all of the tank cars that I don't remember hearing talked about before/knowing about. Almost all of the have the reporting marks on the frame - as well as on the left end of the tank. Is that so they can be identified when the tank leaves the frame during a wreck? Something else? Is this a 'standard' and if so when was it introduced and/or repealed? - Jim B. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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destorzek@...
---In STMFC@..., <jimbetz@...> wrote :
Almost all of the have the reporting marks on the frame - as well as on the left end of the tank. Is that so they can be identified when the tank leaves the frame during a wreck? Something else? Is this a 'standard' and if so when was it introduced and/or repealed? - Jim B. ============ Yes. That is actually common on all types of freight cars... Boxcars typically had the reporting marks stenciled inside on the side plate, on the doors (usually on the inside), on the centersill (but normally only on one side), and on the trucks (usually, but not always, on the bolsters.) The whole car could come apart in a wreck, and hopefully all the pieces would end up at home. The centersill stenciling was hard to see, and most often covered with dirt. Those of us who spent time crawling around under work equipment are familiar with these, as they were seldom changed when the car went in work service, and thus were the car's last revenue number. Dennis Storzek |
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And not just painted reporting marks. Many truck side frames had the owning RR initials cast into the side frames. Who will be the first to model THOSE? Not me..... Chuck Peck in FL On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:56 PM, destorzek@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
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