Frank,
Here is a drawing from the 1889 Railroad Gazette. I can't say if they are
all angled or not but the drawing seems to indicate that.
Ken Martin
I am interested in modeling the CB&Q in 1915 and I
have a question about the line's 34' boxcars. At that time they were
rapidly being retired in favor of new 40' cars, from what I can gather from
ORERs available online, but there were still a few hundred 34' cars in
service. The only photo I've been able to find of one was on this group,
post #49156:So my question is, did all of the line's 34' boxcars have those
canted queen posts that angled away from the center line of the car or did
some have more typical vertical queen posts? I've been able to find
virtually no information on turn-of-the-century CB&Q freight cars online
and don't know where to look in published material.