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Post by ambluco on Mar 29, 2024 4:51:36 GMT -8
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Post by bnsf971 on Mar 29, 2024 14:13:42 GMT -8
Hmmm. If there's a car or truck fouling a grade crossing, launch the roof-mounted missile.
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Post by wagnersteve on Mar 29, 2024 14:37:46 GMT -8
3/29/2024, about 6:32 p.m., EDT
I'm wondering whether the tank on the roof of the baggage/express car in the photo might have contained fuel, either a liquid or a gas, for illuminating the car's interior. According to Wikipedia, Railway Express Agency did not exist until 1929, so the photo couldn't have been taken before then, by which time many head-end cars had electric lighting. So the photo remains something of an unsolved puzzle.
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Post by Baikal on Mar 29, 2024 17:10:35 GMT -8
From ebay.
Car has home-made screen doors, looks like some 2 x 4 framing. Three windows cut into the side. Sloppy car cement on roof. Southeasten railroads had lots of ventalated house cars, esp in earliest days. Heat & humidity, shipping melons, vegetables...
The car looks like it could be in MOW service. Maybe as a shower car or bunk car.
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Post by wagnersteve on Mar 29, 2024 18:04:38 GMT -8
3/29/2024, starting about 9:53 p.m.
Baikal, I think you're right. The Wikipedia article on drop tanks is fascinating. Many were composed mostly of paper! The one in the photo is probably one of the metal ones. Wikipedia does not have an article on the Atlantic & East Carolina but does have one on the Atlantic and North Carolina. They were related and during the 1930-1955 period passenger operations changed from being nominally Atlantic & East Carolina to Atlantic & North Carolina. In 1942 the Atlantic & North Carolina acquired a spur track to serve what became Camp Lejeune, recently notoriously for bad water pollution that harmed many US Marines and their families.
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