What is the hose hanging on the back railing used for.
Backup whistle. (Can also be used to set service or emergency application)
DING! DING! DING! Correctomundo.[oX)]
At the far right of the row of cabeese we see an extra long caboose. What was this used for?
For maintenance crews or perthaps drovers.
DING!DING!DING!
Drover caboose for cattle trains. Or the bowling alley car for MOW crews.[:-^][swg][(-D]
Feel free to add a question of your own anyone.
And here’s me wondering whether three windows or two is correct (per side, CPR wooden).
Wide radius curves?
oldline1
This car was originally built in 1954:
PRR_1000_Z85 by Edmund, on Flickr
For whom? Bonus: Which railroad’s shop built it?
Good Luck, Ed
CPR/Angus
A beautiful consolation prize will be waiting for you as you exit the building, Brent [:-^]
Next?
Isn’t this the car built for Anne of the famous limerick?
There once was a girl named Anne Heuser
Declared that no man could surprise 'er
Till a fellow named Gibbons
Untied her Blue Ribbons
And now she is sadder _________
Who else to build it but WABASH!
Now where’s my free virtual Fluffernutter?
Everybody knows Train X. But what was train Y, and why was it called that?
Fine, now I know how my favourite hockey team feels.[:'(][sigh][(-D]
— and now she is sadder Budweiser! [(-D]
We’re fresh out of Fluffernutter. Would a jar of Marmite do?
The Aerotrain was a streamlined trainset that the General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) introduced in 1955. GM originally designated the light-weight consist as Train-Y (Pullman-Standard’s Train-X project was already underway) before the company adopted the Aerotrain marketing name.
Such high hopes and the inevitable, sad ending.
Thanks, Ed
Well, he got the fluff even as a booby prize. Surely a little honey-roasted peanut butter… or almond butter … or cashew butter … and a couple of slices of bread is not too much to add for ecstasy.
Not even virtually! There are limits, and Marmite is right down there with Vegemite testing them to destruction.
But why was ‘Y’ such a relevant name for it? (Oh wait… I had bad information. I’d thought Y-job Harley Earl had a hand in the design, but current wisdom is Ed Jordan…)
Nice!
With all this and a bag of chips[Y]
And I had to face Sunday morning coming down[:'(] 29-94
Heeeere’s Johnny…Cash! Somebody play some please, Would you?
TF
BUZZER : You are confusing two different things.
The back up whistle is usually a small pipe and whistle attach to the rear handrail. ALL it does is whistle, either as a warning to the public on back up moves or to the engineer.
That is NOT what is shown in the picture, what is shown in the picture is a tail hose or backup hose. It connects to the train ine and has a brake valve on it. It is used to apply the brakes on a back up move. It can be detached and has the hook in the exhaust pipe so it can be hung on the rear railing.
Brent’s photo is pretty dark to be able to see if there is a whistle in that assembly or not. “Most” pigtails I’ve seen have a whistle as part of the valve or sometimes on a separate tee.
Pigtail-crop by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Brent, this reminds me, I have not seen a recent post on the “Waldorf and Statles Photo of the Day!” thread. I enjoyed that thread…
Simon