I have been studying Randall Danniel's books on CB&Q
waycars (especially the 28-foot and 30-foot wooden cars) in hopes of building
some models, but have come up with a few questions that I cannot answer totally
from the books:
Did the waycar paint scheme shift from mineral red to
Chinese red about 1958, in about the same time frame as freight cars? Is that
the same time the lettering style changed from Railroad Roman to the more Gothic
style?
It looks to me like the more common herald was the
rectangle without the black background, but some heralds seem to have a black
background. Was this something that was changed at a particular time, or was
this at the whim of the paint shops?
I am guessing, solely because of their age, that these
cars would have had K-style brakes early on, but most of the photos I've seen
were taken later, and show AB brakes. Was their a time where these started to be
changed over?
The early diagrams (p. 68 of the drawing book) appear to
me to show truss rods on the NE-1 waycars, but I can't seem to find any photos
of these cars with truss rods. Were they that way early, then later receiving
steel underframes?
Did the CW-series of drovers cars have steel center
sills, or were their center sills wood?
Thanks in advance for any help you can
provide.
Best regards,
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Posted by: "Kenneth Middleton" <krmiddle@charter.net>
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