Re: former C&S stock car 7104

Posted by Derrell Poole on
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The 5" intermediate and center sills of the wooden part of the "composite frame" of 7104 rested on top of the cross arms and bolster. The ends of the cross arms and bolster were "L" shaped so that the 7" side sill rested inside the "L".  It's possible the original stringers
were replaced with some really beefy wood - 9 and 11 inch? and the whole SUF was dropped down to use the lower slung archbar? I cannot tell from the photo if the end bracket of the SUF cross members were bolted to the bottom edge of this side sill.

Which begs the question - WHY? Was this car made to take extreme loads to have added that beefy sill? Or was this done to accommodate the low slung  archbar truck. Lots of head scratchin' here... Oh wait - its the eeeev-ville empire.... riiiiiight....