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On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:20 AM, STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> Nelson
> Look on the drawings normally they had two layers so the board edges
> over
> lapped. The boards were grooved to allow the moisture to run between
> the two
> layers sometimes building paper was placed between the two layers.
> Even most early metal roofs had a wood sub roof
> Drawing 1760 for 36' stock cars shows angle roof purlins with wood
> roof
> length-wise to car
> Drawing 1556G for XM-8 has two roof styles. 13/4 X 7 3/4 car lines
> with a car
> liner(No details) and two roof layers. 500 cars with wood roofs and
> 500 with
> metal roofs
> Drawing 1948 for 50' 6" outside steel framing has two layers of wood
> roof with
> Queenan & Murphy roofs with all the neat little metal plates to
> attach the ends
> of the metal plates on the eaves.
> In reading White's "The American Railroad Freight Car" he talks
> about both wood
> and canvas painted with paint and sand sprinkled on for fire
> protection from
> sparks, and sheet zinc with soldered joints.
> I have the FM-14A flat car built ready for the paint shop just have
> to work on
> building Q100 for it(Same bulletin)
> Steve in SC
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nelson Moyer <ku0a@mchsi.com>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 1:55:07 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Wood Car Roof Construction Question
>
> I'm scratch building a Class XB-1 barrel car from drawings in BB#25
> and
> Zephyr #56, and I have a question about roof construction. The 1895
> Car
> Builders' Dictionary shows detailed drawings of a 34 ft. stock car,
> presumably of similar construction to the original horse cars that
> the XB-1
> barrel cars were rebuilt from, since the horse cars were built in
> 1890 and
> rebuilt in 1907. The stock car roof was covered with 7/8 in. x 5 1/2
> in.
> boards running perpendicular to the center line. What waterproofing
> method
> (if any) would have been used on a stock car or horse car roof circa
> 1890?
> Same question for a barrel car circa 1907.
>
> Nelson
>
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