In preparation for this particular load-out, the flats
are backed up against what appears to be a loading dock. (Note that these flats have wooden decks,
just like circus flats.)
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Sunday, April 06, 2014
Troop Train #3
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On circus flats would be two sets of plank on both sides facing front to back of a softer wood for the chalk blocks to stick into with the sharpened spike heads.Each time they got too chewed up they would "redeck the flats"
I spent 15 years hanging around Ed Lester.Learned a lot about show trains from him.Circus flatcars had "gunnels"on the sides.It was not necessary to nail boards on the sides of the wheels.R.B.B. only chained the first and last wagon or truck on the flatcar.The chain was pulled through a ring that was welded to the top of the "gunnel".
Joe: You're right it is pronounced gunnel but I think it's spelled gunwale like on a boat.
I recall one year at the Milwaukee parade in the sixties and old corporation trouper was griping because the CWM crew had "gunneled" a wagon when they loaded it back on the flat for the ride home.
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