Louis,
I'm pretty sure I know how they were cut.
I have told the Pielet story about dynamite and riveted tanks ?
Or how shops used to remove interior rubber linings ?
Leo
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October 5, 2015
Leo - Thanks! In the scrap business, you always made your money on the BUY,
never the sell..... But, it was always impressed upon me as a young and
very green scrap buyer at the time that HONEST weights were the only way
business was to be conducted. Can't say the same for some our competitors
we fought like cats and dogs with over tonnage. I bought a lot of equipment that
really should've gone to a museum instead. One passenger car that still sticks
in my mind was a small L&N steel sheathed wood "Jim Crow" branch line coach
last used in MOW service that had kept its divided passenger sections and
leaded glass windows in the upper roof. I also bought many ancient riveted
tank cars, most of which, as I recall, were 50 years or older when we scrapped
them in the early 1970s. How we cut-up the ones that arrived with oil or
asphalt residue still remaining in them is another story for another
thread... Best Regards - Louis
Louis,
Ah it's so nice when someone uses the same language,gross tons! Thanks to
both you and John.
In BRHS Bulletin #7 I just found a drawing for an XM32,50 ton box with
truck set weights(including wheels) at 15,200. So Louis your number is dead
on. You were being fair to both car owner and your
employer
Leo
October 5, 2015
Leo - I recall that a 50 ton capacity friction bearing truck
weighed approximately five gross tons, 70 ton capacity would've been a
little heavier. Each wheel set was in the range of a thousand pounds.
Anyway, that's what we calculated the purchase weights as
when bidding for scrap. Best Regards - Louis
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