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Early Steel Hopper
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David
A very interesting car for that period especially but what are the trucks on it?Schoen trucks. David Thompson
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Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
A very interesting car for that period especially but what are the trucks on it? At first I thought they might be some sort of Fox design but not after a second look. Thanks for posting this. Cordially, Don Valentine
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David
Aha! That hint and a quick search turned up an article in the February 1906 American Engineer and Railroad Journal, pp. 52-53.
https://books.google.com/books?id=lEmxCGAbOSEC&;pg=PA52 https://books.google.com/books?id=lEmxCGAbOSEC&;pg=PA53 "The car is of the hopper type, of 80,000 lbs. nominal capacity, and was designed and built during the latter part of 1897 under the direction of Mr. L. H. Turner, superintendent of motive power of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, by the Youngstown Bridge Company, Youngstown, Ohio." David Thompson
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ford.donald77 <ford.donald77@...>
David There is also a picture of this car on page 68 of Pittsburgh and Lake Eire by Harold H. McLean (Golden West Books 1980). The author states that the car was either built by P&LE in the McKees Rocks Shops or by Youngstown Bridge Company Don Ford Cameron MO
On Sunday, July 28, 2019, 04:41:54 PM CDT, David via Groups.Io <jaydeet2001@...> wrote:
This was apparently somebody's sample car, built June 1897, that ended up as P&LE 3: David Thompson
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David
This was apparently somebody's sample car, built June 1897, that ended up as P&LE 3:
https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A8223.1896.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.279.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.281.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.280.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.278.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.282.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.277.RR David Thompson
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