Wait ? you're saying that after 1916 there were no more truss rod RPOs in US
trains? What about baggage-mail or passenger-baggage-mail combines? I'm sure
I've seen photos from the 1920s or even later showing secondary or branchline
trains with such cars - but maybe they had steel reinforcing rods added?
I'm also interested to learn there were CB&I water tanks installed so early on
the Q. I'd always assumed they were a post-WWI innovation.
Thanks!
Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
>
> Also keep in mind, that some early steel underframe cars were reinforced
> with truss rods, particularly head end passenger cars.
> --- On Sat, 6/1/13, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...>
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Anselmo, Ne. tank
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11:37 PM
>
>
> John
>
> Thanks for that response. As thereâ??s an RPO in the photo with what appear
> to be truss rods, it was presumed that the photo was taken before the 1916
> U.S. Post Office minimum structural strength requirements for RPOâ??s.Â
> However, the water tank looked potentially too modern.
>
> Rupert
> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John D.
> Mitchell, Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2013 4:28 p.m.
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Anselmo, Ne. tank
> Â
>
> Rubert
>
> I don't when they were first built, but the one at Herrin Junction was built
> in 1910, so they go back a ways.
>
> John
>
> --- On Sat, 6/1/13, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...> wrote:
>
> From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...>
> Subject: [CBQ] Anselmo, Ne. tank [1 Attachment]
> To: "CBQ List" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11:20 PM
>
Does anyone know when steel tanks such as the attached were first built.Â
Iâ??m trying to date a photo taken at Anselmo, Ne.
>
> Rupert Gamlen
> Auckland NZ
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