Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar
Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66138c3 Does anyone have an educated guess (as opposed to a SWAG) as to what the series of chalk marks along the upper side of the car mean? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Douglas Harding
Lots of chalk marks, even the journal box lids have chalk marks. Don’t know what they mean.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io
Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66138c3 Does anyone have an educated guess (as opposed to a SWAG) as to what the series of chalk marks along the upper side of the car mean? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Richard Townsend
As long as we're wondering, I wonder what the little hooks under the left-most two side panels are for. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Douglas Harding <doug.harding@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Sun, Dec 1, 2019 11:30 am Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar Lots of chalk marks, even the journal box lids have chalk marks. Don’t know what they mean.
Doug Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:04 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar
This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah:
Does anyone have an educated guess (as opposed to a SWAG) as to what the series of chalk marks along the upper side of the car mean?
Thanks.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
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Guy Wilber
Richard Townsend asked: “As long as we're wondering, I wonder what the little hooks under the left-most two side panels are for.” Those hooks were used to hold “Keely Cans” used to cool journal boxes. They held water which dripped onto the boxes. Guy Wilber Reno, Nevada
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Richard Townsend
Thanks. One mystery solved. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Guy Wilber via Groups.Io <guycwilber@...> To: main <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Sent: Sun, Dec 1, 2019 1:03 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar Richard Townsend asked:
“As long as we're wondering, I wonder what the little hooks under the left-most two side panels are for.”
Those hooks were used to hold “Keely Cans” used to cool journal boxes. They held water which dripped onto the boxes.
Guy Wilber
Reno, Nevada
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Dennis Storzek
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 11:39 AM, Richard Townsend wrote:
As long as we're wondering, I wonder what the little hooks under the left-most two side panels are for.For hanging a water bag to drip on an overheated journal (hotbox) to nurse it along until the car can be set out. The Q was a big proponent of this, even having them over tender trucks. As to the prominent chalk marks, someone was using the car side as a chalk board, likely counting piles of something on a loading dock. They may not even have anything to do with a load that was ever in this car. Dennis Storzek
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Keeley Cans & Hoses This message was posted by "MontourMan" on Train Orders.com on 09/26/16. It was in response to a question about hoses over the truck bearings on a UP locomotive tender. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ Keeley was a name that railroaders picked up to use referring to the treatment of hotboxes. See the attached Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeley_Institute We have several portable "Keeley Cans" that the Burlington made, that have light chains to secure it to the freight car body. Attached to it was a long rubber hose with a regulating valve to control water flow to the hot bearing. This was to allow the car to be moved to the nearest set off point for proper repair.These cans are marked "Burlington" and I have never seen anything like it from any other railroad.
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Norm Buckhart
Guy - are these cans in the photo Keely Cans? that you are referring to? Norm Buckhart
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On Dec 1, 2019, at 1:02 PM, Guy Wilber via Groups.Io <guycwilber@...> wrote:
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Jack Mullen
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 09:30 AM, Norm Buckhart wrote:
are these cans in the photo Keely CansYes, they are. Thanks for great photos to illustrate this topic. Jack Mullen
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