Flatcar Loads
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For all of you who might be sick of these circular, old chestnut arguments about rail size, wheel shape, who's making turnouts/who's not, who's not growing the scale, all we need is a Grade-A tie-jector car, and so on?? ... I thought I would cross post this question from another 'io' list.? The S List has a number of smart, 1:64 farm equipment modelers that have to be bored senseless - if they haven't already unsubscribed.? The photo below is an enlargement from the BRHS (Burlington Route) archives.??
Can anyone identify the loads on those six flat cars??
? The enlargement is fuzzy but the actual photo (link below) is more distant.? The photo is from 1948, taken along the Mississippi River at Desoto, Wisc.? Since that area of the country had more than a few farm implement manufacturers, some type of farm equipment seems to be the reigning theory.? At any rate, I just wondered if a farm equipment expert might cast a sharp eye on an admittedly, very fuzzy photo...? The full photo:? ? ? shows the train is northbound as the CB&Q tracks are on the east side of the river. Jim Kindraka Grand Rapids, MI |
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Does the tag on the photo mean it's train 81, in 1948? Mid summer. So can someone tell us where this train originated and where it went? Equipment manufacturers were all over the geography south of the photo. It is the Burlington so the Quad Cities comes to mind, along with Peoria, Quincy, Dubuque, well, you get the point. Destination could be Twin Cities, Duluth, the Iron Range...heck, Bob Werre could have spotted this car as it flew thru Aberdeen.?
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开云体育Ted, my guess, is that they might be a
'junior' combine typically called a 'pull type'!? Smaller acreage
farmers used them and I remember the butt ends looking like that!?
A typical flatcar could hold two of them.? The versions that SHS
offered on their flats was much more modern delivered in several
wooden crates along with the larger cab/motor section.? By the
60's these had pretty much had taken over using the term "custom
combining'? where a crew would be hired to truck them down to
Texas, then Oklahoma. then gradually end up in Canada as the crops
would ripen!?
These were decent jobs for college aged
kids who knew how to handle the equipment plus there were always a
few girls looking toward their futures!
Bob Werre
Phototraxx
Looks like one unit per flatcar
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Ted Larson
Tom Lennon
Bob Werre
