Buckles Blog: Power Units #12

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Scan000011079, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: RBBB 104 was a Springfield-built wagon from the 1938 McCoy show. It's now preserved at the Ringling Museum.; 12 April, 2008 16:27
Anonymous said...: The train Cat was used in later years as a pull over as well as to bring the wagons into the street so the trucks could hook onto them.
The mules were mostly used to hook up a string of wagons so the train cat did not have to wait to have them hooked up. Of course, every unloading was different and if the crossing was short, as this one seems to be, they could not bring a long string of wagons as they could not make the turn at the runs.
Speaking of long strings of waqons, in Rockford, IL. in the late 40's I remember them goimg back to train with 6 regular sized wagons.
Bob Kitto; 12 April, 2008 19:53

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