Thursday, November 08, 2007

Tim McCoy RR equipment 1938 #8


Scan000010432, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 11/08/2007 05:41:00 AM

3 comments:

Bob Cline said...

Some of the Tim CcCoy show equipment eventually found its way to the World of Mirth Carnival. When the World of Mirth went broke and the equipment was put up for sale, Circus World Museum was fortunate enough to have the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. purchase a lot of the train for the CWM parades. The orange stock car painted as the Hagenbeck Wallace on one side and Sells Bros. on the other at the CWM was an original Tim McCoy stock car. There was also a cut down stock car made into a flat that was numbered 66 and painted Circus World Museum that was bought for the parades. This was originally an elephant stock car. I'm certain that I read somewhere that it was an original Tim McCoy stock also but I can't lay my hands on that information right this moment. In 1997, the Circus World Museum then repainted flatcar # 57 with the great Tim McCoy lettering on a Blue flatcar which is shown in these photos.
Bob

08 November, 2007 07:45
Anonymous said...

Dad and number of people bought one of the McCoy Stockcar. by the time he get a way to get it Springfield they cut it up. I have the paper work and photos showing the stockcar in my circus file.

David P.

08 November, 2007 18:21
Anonymous said...

The only McCoy asset to go to WOM was the stock car. No indication that any of the Warren flats went that route, or sleepers, or wagons for that matter. The stock eventually had one end cut out so that end-loading doors could be installed. The move weakened the car structure, but it's survived. The late Jim Caldwell thought that the WOM cut down stock car was originally a Warren-built elephant car. If that's correct, it wasn't with McCoy as his Wild West had no elephants. Perhaps it was the WOM car that hauled a bull named Teddy on for a period of time?

11 November, 2007 16:12

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