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Leo You got it. It was cheaper and the guy who watched the costs wasn't riding footboards! Locomotive carpenters were around for a long time. They and painters were the only carmen who worked in the roundhouse. Even some of the early diesel switch engines had them. John From: "qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:57 PM Subject: [CBQ] Wood Switch engine footboards Been looking at a lot of switch engine photos of late while working on
something. Does anyone have anything on why Q switch engine footboards were made
of wood rather than some form of slip resistant steel even well into the 50s
?
The obvious answer is wood was cheaper to replace than steel and footboards
got bent up a lot. The flip side of that is that (take it from someone whos
spent time on the foot boards) there's nothing slippery than a peice of wet
wood. Remember we're talking about a time period when it was not only
permissable but expected that one would use the footboards to expedite the
work.
Leo Phillipp
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