Wednesday, October 08, 2014

From Hal Guyon #3


4 comments:

Hal Guyon said...

Chic, This looks to be one of those wagons with the 3 wheels on the front corners that you mention were hard to turn.

Chic Silber said...


Another wagon with 3 wheels on

each corner (perhaps all the

"container" wagons have them)

Chic Silber said...


They weren't all that hard but

the skidding tires added friction

If there were more than 1 in the

string it was very noticeable

The newer tugs had more power

My recollections are from many

years ago Hal most likely things

are very different nowadays

Pulling "container" wagons were

a lot different from aluminum

upper structure on steel frames

My encounter was on Monte Carlo

Chic Silber said...


I believe it was the Monte Carlo

unit that 1st used the containers

They were supposed to be painted

gold but it looked like duckshit

Even Elvin's cannon was the same