Re: Brake staff /cylinder confusion and mismatched trucks!!

Posted by Ron Rudnick on Sep 22, 2015; 4:32am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Brake-staff-cylinder-confusion-and-mismatched-trucks-tp3464p3490.html

Indeed the brake system on the DSP&P / C&S cars is backwards.  As others have mentioned, I was taught that the brake cylinder should be pointing to the brake wheel.  
For another view check out the DPL Jackson, Fairplay photo CHS.J908.  One can clearly see that the brake cylinder is pointing in what should be the wrong direction.  In the photo 27' box car #969 appears to be no more than a year or two old, which leaves me to suspect that the brake system was installed as such when built in the Omaha shops.  

I was never able to positively ID the builder of the SP&LSL cars.  IIRC somewhere in my notes, is a scrap that hinted that they might have been built by the United States Rolling Stock Company of Chicago.

What is identified as a Litchfield builders mark is actually a Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake mark

And as for the obscure lettering above Union Pacific on box car #24415 I have studied it for decades without a conclusion.  When I first saw it I thought it was something similar to a circus poster.  But it was too high on the car.  Then when studied closer it appears to have been painted on by the railroad.  And as Mr. Courtney noted, I thought the last word in the middle line say "HAY".