think I have to agree with Greg...I don't think is? a Lidgerwood.?? Don't see
how you could use a Lidgerwood on gondolas...They were used with flatcars
loaded with dirt or ballast, which is not the case here..At first look I
thought the thing was a Lidgerwood, but had changed my mind before I saw this
thread
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 2:35 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: [Fwd: [EarlyRail] Capitol City Brick and Pipe Company]
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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