Buckles Blog: Beatty-Cole late 1960's #8

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

CBCB-8, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: Mr. J.C. Hall...How did they tie down these Cage wagons??..I wonder if they ever shot out the Back like a Shot-Gun?; 21 October, 2008 06:41
Anonymous said...: The cages were set two abreast along the bed of this converted car carrier, known from the 1957 rail-to-truck conversion as 78 Cat Wagon. Each cage was secured from rolling, and the runs, folding in the middle, were cranked up to form the barrier on the back end, and were kept in place by chain. Lowering those damn runs was among the most dangerous jobs around that act--we had to grasp either side and pull them outward and backward as Ned Potter let them down by the hand crank In my seasons there, '80 and '81 the cages went up the runs by elephant. Ned and Cindy Potter can remember when Ned loaded out by hand-cranking each cage, one at a time. No one worked harder than Ned in his 20+ years with Hoover.; 24 October, 2008 17:30

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