Hello, Ray and Ken -
Looks like a "Lidgerwood" unloader. The boiler fed a small steam engine -
about like you'd find on a big steam tractor - that powered a winch drum. The
winch cable would be dragged over the top and hitched to a ballast plow on the
far car. The Lidgerwood would then pull the plow from car to car pushing the
ballast off and onto the ground. Sure beat shoveling. Someplace in the dark
recesses of my basement I have a drawing of the Rock Island's version of this
car. PAW
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Bedard
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] [Fwd: [EarlyRail] Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company]
Ken,
Get phot and info. I notice that the open fram car has a link and pin
coupler, so this is a ver eary photo. Any idea what that car was, how it was
used and what was in it other than a boiler? Would make an interesting model
project - or did you already build it?
Ray Bedard
San Jose CA
>From: Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@surewest.net>
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CBQ] [Fwd: [EarlyRail] Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company]
>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:54:51 -0700
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> From a post on the early rail group.
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>Also an early ballast train.
>http://www.uiowa.edu/~calvin/image/cpc1192.jpg
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>Ken Martin
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> > from the Univ. of Iowa Samuel Calvin photo database:
>A -very- modellogenic scene...
>Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company
><http://www.uiowa.edu/~calvin/image/cpc1129.jpg>
>with St Louis Keokuk & Northwestern box car #667 and CB&Q flat #7099
>
>Richard - San Leandro, CA
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