- 1. [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:45:19 -0600
- The Aurora,IL BRT lodge files are full of complaints by the members from finding "their" Waycars in shambles after a yard crew had used them as bumping posts,held onto them while switching or kicked
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00336.html (11,208 bytes)
- 2. RE: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:57:58 -0600
- All- “Widow Makers” was a common term on many railroads for any caboose/waycar without end platforms with only side door entry. The issue was getting on and off a moving car and having to
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00371.html (13,935 bytes)
- 3. RE: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:35:20 -0800 (PST)
- Not only that Charlie, but if you fell off the steps, there was a good chance you would go under the car and there was that trailing truck that could "get you". With end platforms, you could get on t
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00375.html (14,449 bytes)
- 4. [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:08:53 -0500 (EST)
- John you have brought to mind a situation related to all waycars, at all crew change points. I'll use what I experienced to describe. Once pool waycars came into being, the old process of having your
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00376.html (12,812 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:23:30 -0800 (PST)
- John you have brought to mind a situation related to all waycars, at all crew change points. I'll use what I experienced to describe. Once pool waycars came into being, the old process of having you
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00380.html (14,821 bytes)
- 6. [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:29:00 +1300
- As the waycars converted from boxcars were so obviously unsafe (even to non-rail workers), I wonder why efforts weren't made to make them safer, possibly on the lines of the transfer waycar #14700. I
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00384.html (14,303 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:48:13 -0800 (PST)
- Rupert It should be noted that one of the reasons more waycars, like 14700, were not built was that the Brotherhood deemed it unsafe to board and get off. I don't know how valid this objection was si
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00385.html (15,411 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:38:15 +1300
- John The Brotherhood "accepted" the box waycars with their inherent safety issues, but that was much earlier. I think, though, that the wooden steps used below the side doors of the box waycars might
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00386.html (14,521 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:53:58 -0800 (PST)
- The Brotherhoods in the 1904 era certainly weren't very strong and in 1943, there was this "There is a war on." attitude that would have made them less vocal. It was after the war that they started c
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00388.html (15,221 bytes)
- 10. RE: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:55:35 -0700
- The FW&D was allotted several of the WWII box waycars and in the late 1940s rebuilt then until their origin was unrecognizable, with cupolas, end platforms and single-sheathed sides. Hol To: CBQ@yaho
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00389.html (15,149 bytes)
- 11. RE: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:01:00 -0700
- I should have mentioned that the FW&D converted its box waycars because in 1949 Texas became the last state in the country to ban the use of side door cars in train service. The Q got away with its "
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00390.html (15,235 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars (score: 1)
- Author: Tim Fleck <tf5077@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:12:25 -0800 (PST)
- -- On Thu, 1/24/13, qutlx1@aol.com <qutlx1@aol.com> wrote: From: qutlx1@aol.com <qutlx1@aol.com> Subject: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:08 PM Joh
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00392.html (13,977 bytes)
- 13. Re: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:23:38 -0500 (EST)
- Or a tank car..they were almost as bad as a flatcar Pete Rupert It should be noted that one of the reasons more waycars, like 14700, were not built was that the Brotherhood deemed it unsafe to board
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00394.html (16,503 bytes)
- 14. Re: [CBQ] Emergency waycars (score: 1)
- Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:43:33 -0500 (EST)
- We had a couple of those "widowmakers" on the Rock Island at Joliet when I was trainmaster there in61 and 62...I don't know how long they lasted..They were strictly used only for yard transfer work.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-01/msg00396.html (16,357 bytes)
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