Monday, April 18, 2011

RBBB Rolling Stock #3


04-17-2011 12;47;19PM, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 4/18/2011 06:21:00 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Note the loading length on most of the wagons shown.

Damn, April 18, and we had snow over night.

Bob Kitto

18 April, 2011 08:07
Hal Guyon said...

I know they put the loading length on the wagons in 1946. I`m thinking that was the only year it was done but someone correct me if I`m wrong.

18 April, 2011 09:36
Anonymous said...

All the bibleback wagons were 14'. The "blue's" plank wagons #16 and #17 were 13'6".

18 April, 2011 12:11
Goodall said...

what did this wagon carry?

19 April, 2011 15:01
Anonymous said...

Biblebacks. 2 boards hinged together which sits on the stringer which the chairs would be placed. Yes, some shows had 3 boards hinged together to make these.

19 April, 2011 23:03
Anonymous said...

At one time the hinges for the bibles were made in Rockkford, IL,
where there were several hardware manufactures.
Bob Kitto

20 April, 2011 07:33
Buckles said...

On the Cole Show during tear down, it was manditory for lady performers to fold and stack grandstand chairs and received a stipend.
I would accompany my mother during these chores and thought it was fun.
For some reason I remember Bill Hill carrying bibles to the wagon, it was called "humpin' lumber".
I also remember walking thru the railroad yards late at night ever watchful fast moving freight trains.
My mother would warn me, "Buckles, don't stand so close when they pass by! You're getting more like your Uncle Granny every day!"
Referring of course to her brother Lawrence Orton who was the family eccentric.

20 April, 2011 08:33
Anonymous said...

Ida North also cautioned her boys to be careful in the train yards, but she never referenced a family eccentric.

20 April, 2011 09:03

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