The RR's started building cars without roofwalks in June, 1966, and began removing them from cars so equipped a short time later. About two years previous to that they put out a rule forbidding trainmen to use the roofwalks.
Bob Nicholson ______________________________________ --- In [email protected], "G. Elems" <gelems@...> wrote: > > When I started taking train pictures in 1971 with a Kodak range finder there > were a lot of roof walks on cars still. By 1979 a good 15-20% of the older > cars still had roof walks. Those that had them removed often still had the > high hand brake so on the B end you would climb up to tie or knock brakes. > The recession of 1982 on saw the whole sale retirement of cars with the > 1960's graphics and road names. Roof walk equipped cars of course were > removed at that time too. We also saw an immediate loss of the first > generation refrigerator cars of the 50' length (45' interior) with strings > of them sidelined and sitting outside scrap yards in California. About 6 > yrs ago I was able to photograph some ex-SP 40' box cars made in 1974 for > their copper anode service in Arizona. The 2008 start of the recession > removed those and the 1965 built covered hoppers in sand service. Now the > Railbox and Railgon cars are on the endangered list. > > > > Greg > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
