HI ALL
running on the rfd tv channel right now is trains and locomotive show runs
from 5:00-6:00p.m. every monday and is repeated during the week.the show
tonight appears to be about electric railroads in and around waterloo iowa in
the 10 minutes that i have been watching it the have been three flat car loads
of tractors.one john deere,one white and the third one i could not identify.
bill ewinger
burlington iowa
Douglas Harding <dharding@nethtc.net> wrote:
Steve, most tractors were shipped on flatcars, even the "tricyle" type you
mentioned, more commonly known as a narrow front end. The flat car permitted
loading in a patterned not possible with a boxcar, sideways, at an angle,
staggered, etc. thus permitting more tractors per car There are many photos
to illustrate this, along with the tie down rules related to fastening
equipment, like tractors, to flat cars. I suggest to you look for a loading
guide published by the AAR. There were instructions for each type, style and
even size of tractor and anything else that would be shipped on a flat car
or gon.
Implements could be just about anything used in agriculture. Tractors, yes.
But also wagons or just the boxes or the running gear, plows, cultivators,
planters, harvesting equipment, and the list could be quite extensive.
In the time period of Russ' train lists, most farm implements were unloaded
at the team track dock, a flat wood platform build along side a siding.
Unless it was a very large dealership, there was probably not a siding or
spur at the dealer's building. And I am not sure a dealer would want to
spend time inside a boxcar assembling parts before they could be removed
from the boxcar. Tractors on a flat could be driven onto the dock and then
down the street to the dealer's location.
Doug Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org
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