Monday, April 18, 2011

RBBB Rolling Stock #9


04-17-2011 01;07;08PM, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 4/18/2011 06:04:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cookhouse # 3 carried the wood burning ranges.

18 April, 2011 11:55
Richard Reynolds said...

I believe this one went back to Baraboo on the RB show. Note the closely spaced vertifal ribs on the wagon.

It was only in later RBBB years that the title was put on most of the wagons.

The Boo borhers were very tight with paint money for titles.

18 April, 2011 23:38
Anonymous said...

They didn't paint the name of the show on any of the wagons that rode the first section. I anyways understood this as these wagons would be headed back to the runs while the evening crowd would be headed to the lot for the night performance. They didn't want folks to think that they wouldn't be seeing a complete night performance. These wagons would be the cookhouse dept.,baggage stock and blacksmith wagons, layout dept,etc. After the war, Ringling went so far as to paint the cookhouse dept green to blend in to the background so town folks wouldn't notice them. Dom could tell us which years these would be. Almost all railroad shows would letter their cookhouse wagons "Dining Dept.",etc. for this same reason.
Ringling did letter their water wagons, but these wagons would make many trips to town to refill their tanks and people would know that it was circus day from the signage.

20 April, 2011 08:42
Anonymous said...

All the garage wagons that were parked by the railroad sidings that never went to the lot, looked like billboards with the rbbb logo on them.

20 April, 2011 13:50
Anonymous said...

Ringling started to paint the cook house wagons green in 1951. Wagons 1,3,4,5,6,7& 8 were part of the cookhouse. Notice that there was no #2 in 1951. The cookhouse generator and boiler were placed in the front of the range wagon and dishwasher. In 1952 they brought back the separate generator wagon.
In addition wagons #9 blacksmith, 108 stakedriver, 104 commissary were also painted green.
In 1951 the only wagons that had the Ringling Bros.- Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows name on them were #43 big top center poles, # 57 aerial rigging and #'s 141,143 & 146 spec props and equipment. Of course all of the wagons had the Property of ....etc. stenciled on the front. The ticket wagons had the very nice logo in scroll lettering on each side.
Most all of the Mack trucks also had the full name on each side although a couple just had a large RB instead.
Hope this helps (at least for 1951).
Dom

20 April, 2011 16:57
Anonymous said...

Thank you Dom for the information. The earlier commissary wagon #6 had always been painted green also. I had purchased photos from Bob Good and noticed #6 had a different shade to it and it couldn't be Ringling red. ( all these photos were in black and white ) I then wrote to Mr. Good about that, and he said that it was painted green but maybe a lighter green then the later dining dept.wagons. There are a couple color photos online in the Milner Library digital collection of the Ringling cookhouse of the 1950's and shows the green cookhouse wagons. Of course all the lighter pigmented paints made before world war two would fade pretty fast and maybe that was the only difference.
p.j.

21 April, 2011 08:50

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