Thursday, November 09, 2006

Sells-Floto train at the crossing 1930 #2


This is the "run" car from which a string of flat cars are unloaded. So called, since the runs (ramps) are placed on the deck beneath the first wagon and can be seen being unloaded by the train crew, who already have the wagon pole (tongue) in position.
Again, as in Mondays Cole Show pictures, first things needed at the lot are the stake & chain wagon (to lay out the lot) and the cook house wagons.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I spent a summer with Cetlin Wilson it was a lucky day when we arrived in a town with a "team track" with a permanent ramp.

Bob Cline said...

Mr. MacPherson,
Robert Spivey in Petersburg, Va. and myself have been researching the Cetlin and Wilson Shows all summer for a really huge article to be published in the Carnival Model Builders and Historians magazine probably next year. I would really like to talk to you about your rememberances.
Bob Cline
Cheraw, SC
fivetiger@marlboroelectric.net

Anonymous said...

DID YOU EVER PLAY THE WV STATE FAIR WITH THE C & W?

Anonymous said...

HAVE BEEN A FAN OF THE OLD C&W SHOWS...THEY USED TO PLAY THE WV STATE FAIR HERE..AND I AM INTERESTED IN FINDING MORE ABOUT THEM..I THEY WERE THE LAST OF THE OLD RAILROAD SHOWS.