Re: Case of the Missing Truss Rods - Revisited
Posted by Jim Courtney on
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No sense of "contest" on my part, Doug.
You have no idea how grateful I am that Todd posted these beautiful high-res images of the reefers! After years of staring at blurry, small photographs, I can finally see things that I never understood.
Consider all the info on this crop of just one of the photos:
A perfect example of the UP style corner iron with side poling pocket on the left and the Litchfield style corner iron with circular poling pocket on the 24011 to the right.
You can actually see the planks on the bottom of the frame, covering the bottoms of the sills to insulate the floor--they actually protrude below the bottom edge of the car siding (and on the big Tiffany as well).
Look how the car siding is notched around the strap bolster end with two protruding bolts as in Todd's photo above.
Look at all the bends in the branch train line that angles down to the reservoir, and the retainer pipe to the left. But I don't see a reservoir bleed rod anywhere.
Look how the diagonal grabs are attached to the car side, with flat tabs and square headed bolts.
And check out the upper side fascia on the other images of 24011. There is a shallow milled groove running the length of the car, just above the bottom edge of the fascia board. This car was built in the early 1880s, but the C&S shops used the same type of milled fascia board on the 1909 SUF reefer that you are building. Wonder why.
I'm still not completely comfortable with 27 foot Tiffany cars without truss rods, but I must admit that there are no truss rods on the Tiffany in Todd's photos, and I have yet to find an end view of a Tiffany with truss rod bolt heads visible, save the c1902 reefer in Blackhawk. That car has been rebuilt and may have added truss rods at that time.
Anyways, I see many evenings ahead studying these images.
Jim
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Case-of-the-Missing-Truss-Rods-Revisited-tp6387p6428.html
No sense of "contest" on my part, Doug.
You have no idea how grateful I am that Todd posted these beautiful high-res images of the reefers! After years of staring at blurry, small photographs, I can finally see things that I never understood.
Consider all the info on this crop of just one of the photos:
A perfect example of the UP style corner iron with side poling pocket on the left and the Litchfield style corner iron with circular poling pocket on the 24011 to the right.
You can actually see the planks on the bottom of the frame, covering the bottoms of the sills to insulate the floor--they actually protrude below the bottom edge of the car siding (and on the big Tiffany as well).
Look how the car siding is notched around the strap bolster end with two protruding bolts as in Todd's photo above.
Look at all the bends in the branch train line that angles down to the reservoir, and the retainer pipe to the left. But I don't see a reservoir bleed rod anywhere.
Look how the diagonal grabs are attached to the car side, with flat tabs and square headed bolts.
And check out the upper side fascia on the other images of 24011. There is a shallow milled groove running the length of the car, just above the bottom edge of the fascia board. This car was built in the early 1880s, but the C&S shops used the same type of milled fascia board on the 1909 SUF reefer that you are building. Wonder why.
I'm still not completely comfortable with 27 foot Tiffany cars without truss rods, but I must admit that there are no truss rods on the Tiffany in Todd's photos, and I have yet to find an end view of a Tiffany with truss rod bolt heads visible, save the c1902 reefer in Blackhawk. That car has been rebuilt and may have added truss rods at that time.
Anyways, I see many evenings ahead studying these images.
Jim
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
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