In the Color Guide to Freight Cars Page 96 is a load of Case Loaders and
Backhoes on a 53 foot flat
Page 98 has a load of new corn planters on a 53 foot flat
Using the map in Trains Nov 2007 issue CB&Q Train No. 72 came from the Quad
Cities and went to Cicero(Chicago) and Russ's Paperwork shows 4 carloads of
Implements set out to the IHB. CB&Q 20028 and 20052 fifty foot Auto Box Cars
with 7 foot 9 inch doors DRGW 63519 a 50 foot box with 15 foot doors and GN
41908 a 50 foot box with 12 foot doors
With out waybills or other shipping papers it is hard to tell what Implements
would mean. Corn Planters, Plows, Disks, Tractors??
I would suggest early tricycle style tractors were shipped in Box Cars. Even
with a wide front tractor the front assembly could be unbolted and shipped in
the same car allowing more room for many tractor to be put in a car. The front
ends would be bolted back on and unloaded by the factory warehouse located in
many cities across the country.
Again look at Russ's Paperwork on Extra East 117AB. It came from Galesburg.
Possibly was No. 72's connections or running late so was operated as an Extra.
It came via the Main Line as it set cars of cattle out at Princeton. CB&Q
93346 shows a load of Tractors on a 53 foot flat
Any Thoughts???
SJH
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