Having fun watching vintage NYC footage (ca. 1928) posted on Youtube. Can anyhow identify the containers/structures/load being transported in the gondola at the 6:57-7:05 mark of the link below?
If it’s shaped like a skinny house, Henry, then - yea, that’s probably what I’m seeing. And, looking at the video again, it does look like each one comes to a peak in the middle.
I’m also trying to determine what class locomotive NYC #1904 is in 6:10-6:19. It’s not an S-motor (Boxcab). It’s not a shay. It doesn’t match anything I can find in any of my accessible NYC references. And having the wheels covered up doesn’t help, either. [:S]
Thanks for the correction, Dave. Are LCL (& FCL) containers limited in the type of cargo that can be stored in them?
Thanks also for the additional link. My gut feeling was that it might be a shay, since the footage was shot in Manhattan. However, the one photo I located online was the bottom one in the link you shared.
Used on the Westside Line and around the Jersey docks where horses may be present. Just hiding the side rods were enough to convince the flesh horses that iron horses weren’t a thread.
NYC nicknamed them “dummies” rebuilt from several E class 2-6-0 and I believe there were a few from LS&MS 0-4-0s. One diagram book I have lists 1902-1906 as Ed class.
This one is P&LE but the New York Central had a few as well. I’ll bet it was a little toasty in there for those ladies in their wool garb and big hats!