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Never saw a re-railing frog in a waycar, on the engine yes but on the waycar, no. It is not a flare, but a fusee on the railroad. Don't forget the coal for the stove and oil cans in the "oil house". Q waycars carried a case of "emergency tools" for wrecks on the wall on the stove side. Above the desk were some pigeon holes for forms. Spare knuckles were sometimes carried, but they were carried under the bunks so you couldn't see them. There were clothes hanging on the walls. There were fusee racks on each end of the car next to the doors. In the rack also were flags and hanging red lanterns with torpedoes wrapped around the lantern bail. The crews carried cooking utensils, supplies and food
but they were in the cabinet, whose door folded down to make a table. This was on the desk side of the car, above the bunks. On the end opposite the cupola, on the stove side, next to door was the ice box which was about waist high and about 2 1/2 feet square. On most waycar, there were kerosene lamps on the walls. One was over the conductors desk and there was one on each wall above the bunks. From: DaveS <sartherdj@aol.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:36 PM Subject: [CBQ] Standard Waycar Equipment At present I'm building an O-Scale CB&Q waycar and would like to add some detail to the interior. What could one expect to find among some of the standard equipment, tools, etc on a CB&Q waycar during the 40's, 50' or 60's? Signal flares, torpedoes, flags, hand lanterns, re-rail frogs, ...? On the walls calendars, system maps... ? On the conductors desk, way bills and other forms...? Thanks, Dave S. Tucson, AZ sartherdj@aol.com __._,_.___
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