Monday, July 27, 2015

Arthur Bros. #3


4 comments:

Bob Karczewski said...

That railroad car looks like it may have been built in their shop. It is just too out of the ordinary to have been constructed by one of the numerous railroad car builders back then.

Roger Smith said...

Agreed, BOB. This has to have been a shop-made custom job. I bet with the circus know-how put into this car, it was entirely functional and met all specific purposes.

Harry Kingston said...

It looks like 2 steel box cars welded together to make one as with two steel sliding doors.
I have never seen a box car like this.
Harry in Texas

Chic Silber said...


The overall length would have

made for a problem in passing

another train on a twin rail

curve which became a major

problem with the early Acela

tilting cars by Bombardier

Unlike the Swedish tilt train

by ABB (Asea Brown Boveri)

that self compensated for

more degrees of tilting