Re: [CBQ] 34' boxcars

["Nelson Moyer ku0a@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Many of the bunk houses shown on alignment charts were listed as 9x34 ft, sometimes on ties. Is it a reasonable assumption that all 34 ft. bunk houses were retired double sheathed boxcars?

I have photos of single sheathed boxcars converted into bunk houses, but I assume they were 38 or 40 ft. cars retired from later classes.

I need several 34 ft. bunk houses for branchline towns on my layout, so any photos or other information will be appreciated.

Nelson Moyer

On Oct 14, 2015, at 4:54 PM, "'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Frank

The first ORER I have that breaks down the number of cars in each numerical group is February 1916 ORER, when there were 1231 box cars with a nominal length of 34 feet.  These cars were from classes XM-2 to XM-6, built between 1887 and 1905. The only difference between 1915 and 1916 was that more cars would have been retired, including the two 1888 ex-CB&N #23519 and #23869 which were still listed in 1915.

The cars in these classes were built by a variety of commercial builders and, in theory, would have been similar to other box cars of the era.  However, the cars were built to CB&Q specifications as opposed to stock production, and Aurora built one or more sample cars for each class which were lent to the builders as a guide.

 

Looking at diagrams of these five classes, all of the cars had canted queen posts, as did 34â?? reefers and coal cars. The canted posts werenâ??t restricted to 34â?? cars â?? 40â?? cars such as the XM-9, 11, 13 and 16 also had them.  Diagrams of the XM-4 appeared in several of the trade magazines in 1896 so Iâ??ll forward you a copy separately.   

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 14 October 2015 17:01
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] 34' boxcars

 

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.

Frank Hicks

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