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1. [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 05:20:58 +0000; With reference to my post last month, I’ve found a 1968 letter from Armour thanking the Burlington for the use of a waycar while they were testing refrigeration units in transit, the car being; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00037.html (15,985 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 12:56:07 +0000; Rupert: Loved your reference to John Allen's G&D! What a railroad it was! Hol From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Rupert Gamlen <gamlenz@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:20 P; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00039.html (18,008 bytes)
3. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Ken Vandevoort via groups.io" <apo09324=yahoo.com@groups.io>; Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 06:02:02 -0700; Rupert, you may want to post this to the GandD group. There are hungry for anything about John Allen and several are trying to duplicate his modeling. I actually got to meet the guy. Ken Vandevoort _; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00040.html (11,738 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:22:48 +0000 (UTC); May 7, 2020 Hol/Rupert - At least there's still a few of us left who remember the magnificent G&D! - Louis Louis Zadnichek II Fairhope, AL In a message dated 5/7/2020 7:56:15 AM Central Standard Time; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00041.html (17,514 bytes)
5. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "jpslhedgpeth via groups.io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 15:38:43 +0000 (UTC); When something like this comes up I always HAVE TO bring up the old poem.."PUT THE HOGGER IN THE WAYCAR"...If you are one of the very few who has not seen this bit of "Doggeral" you can, no doubt "lo; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00044.html (18,628 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:28:23 -0500; If you do not have it, get Linn Westcott's book about John Allen and the G&D. I've read it several times. A lot of the modeling and concepts still stand up today. And as I looked over the plan again; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00045.html (15,736 bytes)
7. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 23:13:02 +0000; The only photo I could readily find of the impact effect car comes from the Westcott book, although I’m sure that there was a photo in one of the magazines. To connect this back to the Burlingt; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00047.html (20,309 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 23:18:14 +0000; Im not a member of that Group but if someone wants to post it, go ahead. I can provide a bit more detail from the literature of the day. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00048.html (14,793 bytes)
9. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 19:46:20 -0500; The only photo I could readily find of the impact effect car comes from the Westcott book, although Im sure that there was a photo in one of the magazines. To connect this back to the Burlington, mu; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00049.html (18,410 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 15:54:30 -0500; Rupert wrote: Back during the Burlington Brake Trials in 1876, test equipment was installed in the waycar at the end of the test trains to measure the severity of the braking effect. The slideometer; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00055.html (14,521 bytes)
11. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 00:14:59 +0000; Charlie As well as the Westinghouse book, the Slideometer was covered in Railroad Gazette in 1886, as per attached account. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00056.html (17,287 bytes)
12. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:40:09 -0500; Charlie As well as the Westinghouse book, the Slideometer was covered in Railroad Gazette in 1886, as per attached account. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00057.html (16,362 bytes)
13. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 01:04:20 +0000; Leo This was the era of link and pin couplers which, over the length of a train, allowed far more slack than might be required to start a train. They experimented on the Burlington in early 1887 with; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00058.html (20,421 bytes)
14. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 21:33:54 -0500; Leo This was the era of link and pin couplers which, over the length of a train, allowed far more slack than might be required to start a train. They experimented on the Burlington in early 1887 wit; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00059.html (18,327 bytes)
15. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Winton" <runextra@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:20:10 -0700; The idea that one cannot start a heavy train without taking slack is a railfan myth in today's context. In fact I'd go so far to say that you canNOT use slack to start a heavy train today. In the old; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00060.html (12,142 bytes)
16. Re: [CBQ] Waycar as test lab (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 12:28:17 -0500; Winston, I certainly would not disagree with your points of starting a train in todays modern railroading. My comments were from first hand experience in the 1970s when we still had waycars and lots; /archives/BRHSLIST/2020-05/msg00061.html (12,593 bytes)

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