Buckles Blog: Cristiani Bros. Route Book 1958 #4

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Scan11370, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: Rear doors like a circus giraffe wagon; they got it right.; 22 February, 2009 09:06
Anonymous said...: This is a great shot - whatever is going on , even the giraffe is interested! cc; 22 February, 2009 22:11
Anonymous said...: Actually, they got the rear doors wrong. The bottom should open first. This beast must have been trained not to start walking, or the lower doors were adequately high to stop forward motion of his body.; 23 February, 2009 09:43
Anonymous said...: I agree with the last anomyous. I've heard it said that the old RBBB rail show giraffe wagons were made so that the bottom opened first. That way the animals, seeeing the open top door in front of them, would not start out and get tripped up.; 23 February, 2009 15:12

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