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lathefan · Apr 7, 2016

...using steam derrick to rebuild 50 ton hopper cars...

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SouthBendModel34 · Apr 7, 2016

Hopper Car Kit?

Look at the stacks of pre-cut and pre-punched material. It looks like they are building a hopper car from a kit - in "Twelve inch to the foot scale!"

(My intended-to-be-humorous comment might not make much sense unless you've seen model railroad car kits, which are very common.)

It might possibly be a repair of a very badly wrecked car. There are some bent objects near the feet of the man on the right. There's also what looks like either a retainer valve or a handbrake mechanism up at the top of the partial right end

The Bull of the Woods is supervising, wearing his business shirt, fedora hat, & necktie.

Thanks, LF, for another interesting historical photo. The steam crane is very like-able.

JRR

Limy Sami · Apr 7, 2016

SouthBendModel34 said:
Look at the stacks of pre-cut and pre-punched material. It looks like they are building a hopper car from a kit - in "Twelve inch to the foot scale!"

(My intended-to-be-humorous comment might not make much sense unless you've seen model railroad car kits, which are very common.)

JRR

Possibly so, but that photo is from the days when plate work was properly laid out by skilled men to proven drawings, all ready for erection and fabrication.

Not the measure, cut, trim a bit more off bash to fit and general effing about that passes for much of today's skilled fabricators.

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