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

Posted by Jim Courtney on Sep 24, 2015; 3:25pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Brake-staff-cylinder-confusion-and-mismatched-trucks-tp3464p3508.html

Enlargements from the Jackson Fairplay photo that Ron referenced (http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll21/id/7122/rec/89:



The backwards brake staff arrangement is clearly present on a nearly new car.  The trucks under the boxcar are also the 14 ton coal car type, suggesting that the trucks were not recycled later, but were original equipment on the car when built in 1882-83.



Litchfield flat car 199 shows the same brake staff relationship, trucks are the 12 ton Litchfield "type A" variety.

Anyone know of a wreck photo from the 1890s or early 1900s that shows the underframe of one of the early car types?