Building new rolling stock for WW&F!

[Ken Fleming]

Railroad cars have there handbrake wheels on the 'B' end of the car.  Exception are cabooses (some other non-standard cars), which have a brake wheel at each end.  Thus our cars have their B Ends in either North or South direction.

Left and Right are as facing the coupler.  Thus the 'A' End Left is on the same side of the car as 'B' End Right.  A caboose's 'A' and 'B' ends are marked by an letter A or B above the door. 

[Mike Fox]

The brakes on the two flats are on opposite ends of the cars so one brakeman could control both. I just set them Saturday on 126 so I know those are on the north end.

[James Patten]

The brakes on the two flats are on opposite ends of the cars so one brakeman could control both.

Or switch them around so the brake wheels are at opposite ends, so we can carry a load between two flats without worrying about smashing one of the brake wheels.

[Dave Crow]

Ira:  Here is a reminder of the fun we had back in April; we pushed 126 all the way in to Bay 2, and lifted the north end of the car so we could roll the truck out.

Ted:  Coach 3 was delivered with vacuum brakes; supposedly the Eames system.  The attached photo is of the underside of the Rangeley, on display at Maine Narrow Gauge RR & Museum; one of the two vacuum cylinders is in the foreground, and the air brake cylinder is in the background.  Some of SR&RL's passenger cars had both types of braking systems underneath - the folks at Phillips have photos of the coach they have been restoring, and both systems are under that car, too.  However, WW&F only had vacuum brakes, never air brakes.

Now to get dimensions and really good details of the vacuum cylinder for future use...

Dave Crow

[Ira Schreiber]

My bad.....

[Matthew Gustafson]

Does anybody have any photos of the tank body for the future WW&F tankcar? 

[John McNamara]

Does anybody have any photos of the tank body for the future WW&F tankcar? 

A Marcel Levesque picture from the September/October 2007 newsletter:

[Matthew Gustafson]

I think that tankcar body should earn a new coat of paint.

[Ken Fleming]

The tankcar needs a lot more than paint.  It has considerable damage that will need repaired first.

[Josh Botting]

No since painting it until it is repaired.

[Matthew Gustafson]

What flatcar will it be mounted on? Will it be a custom built flatcar or some other 2 foot flatcar from MNGM?

[Ed Lecuyer]

We'll have to build a new flatcar for the tank. I don't think MNG has any spare flat cars.

[Matthew Gustafson]

What will the new tankcar will be based from the tankcars of the WW&F past roster?

[Ed Lecuyer]

The WW&F didn't have any tank cars. I imagine we'll restore it as the B&SR tank. It was labeled SOCONY - Standard Oil Company of New York. It originally had the number 21. Eventually, (on the B&SR) it was swapped onto flat #14. When Edaville got a hold of it, the flat car was converted to a coach or excursion car - and the tank was set aside.

[Dwight Winkley]

The photo of the tank doesn't show that most of the bottom of the tank is rusted away. And has many holes.  Steel plates need to be rolled to size and welded in place.

Maybe some of the camera folks could get a photo of the bottom of the tank as it now is and post it.