Thursday, November 08, 2007

Tim McCoy RR equipment 1938 #9


Scan000010433, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 11/08/2007 05:40:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The McCoy sleepers were generally older wooden body Pullman cars that had been updated with steel underframes and side sheathing. The cosmetic exterior treatment gave them a much newer appearance, akin to later heavyweight steel cars. Pullman rebuilt many such cars in the 1920s, most of them coaches. The seats could readily have been removed and replaced with high density bunks common to traveling show practice. The truss rods seen in the photo were not part of the wooden body construction but part of the retrofitted steel underframe. Unlike the entirely new stocks, flats and wagons, the sleepers had several decades of existence behind them. McCoy's private car "Cheyenne" and the advertising car were the only steel-framed cars with the troupe. The ad car went over to the Cole show.

12 November, 2007 11:10

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