RE: [CBQ] Re. Lake Forest Archives

[<rquisenb@comcast.net>]

Doug
 Thank you for the confirmation / clarification.  I was puzzled about the part 
of the picture adjacent to the RR car grab bar.  I was trying to make it out as 
part of the RR car.  I now see the vertical wood post and the handrail attached 
to it.  But I still don't understand the black shape at an angle "behind" the 
post, and the 4 bolts / rivets on a metal? panel parallel to the side of the 
car.  I wonder if there is a "hollow" metal piece about 4 in. "thick" that is 
bent out of shape - attached at the top by the bolts and pushed away from the 
RR track side at the bottom.
 I plan to send a correction to the Lake Forest College archives about the RR 
freight car, not "a viaduct abutment".
 For others just picking up this thread, see
 http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/2031 
http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/2031
 Ray Quisenberry
 
---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <doug.harding@...> wrote :

 Ray that appears to be a PRR reefer 101859, (note it appears the word products 
is above the name, as in Dairy Products). It is alongside an open platform 
loading dock, which is between the car and the camera. Note the 2x4 railing 
coming up the steps at the end of the platform.
  
 While odd there is only one grab iron visible and no ladder, before the safety 
appliance laws of the early 1900 a single grab was not uncommon. (check out 
this photo of an 1899 reefer for comparison 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swift_Refrigerator_Line_car,_1899.jpg 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swift_Refrigerator_Line_car,_1899.jpg )
  
 There is a wagon at the end of the reefer and what appears to be a large chunk 
of ice on the platform.
  
 Doug Harding
 www.iowacentralrr.org