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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: [Fwd: [EarlyRail] Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company]
From: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:35:48 -0600
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Wagner, Hol (RBI-US RCD) wrote:
> Norm:
> 
> The photo in question (I have
> a copy neg of the view) is a classic shot of one of the Q's Lidgerwood
> unloaders.

> graywolfs2 wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> I think I would have to disagree with you on it being an "unloader". 
>>
>> Look at the workers in the cars...there are a couple of them that 
>> have shovels in hand.
>>
>> I do not see any cable running from the "engine" end of the car to 
>> the gons. that would pull a plow.
>>
>> Look at the truck under the "engine" end of the car. There is a 
>> large sprocket with a large chain running from it up towards the 
>> engine on the near axle.
>>
>> I believe that this is an early form of MOW motive power...perhaps 
>> developed so as to not need an engine with a full crew.
>>
>> Greg K.
>> Minnesota 
>>
>> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Philip Weibler" <pawnbaw@...> wrote:
>>> 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@...>
>>>   >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
>>>   >
>>>   > From a post on the early rail group.
>>>   >
>>>   >Also an early ballast train.
>>>   >http://www.uiowa.edu/~calvin/image/cpc1192.jpg
>>>   >
>>>   >Ken Martin
>>>   >
>>>   > > 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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