Hi Glenn...Glenn Brooks wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:37 pm Hello Mike and Gregg,
Iam back home in Seattle after working on the Oahy Railway coach for the winter. We made some progress that I documented in the Museum section, under Oahu Rr thread. Mainly installing the 2x10 truss plates on both sides of the car frame.
Now, back home here in the PNW, have decided to set about build8ng one or two riding 10’ riding cars in 3” scale for my backyard rail 12” pike.
mike, if you read this, may I ask which volume you have that references the car diagrams you scanned to this thread a couple of months ago??
I had to leave all the drawings and reference books at the RR, so only have your scans of the wood car construction pages to go by. I researched your book and discovered there is something like a 6 volume set. I’d like to order the volume relating to car construction.
Thanks much for any info you might be able to provide.
Glenn
It's called "Cars-Construction Handling and Supervision". It doesn't have a number, but it's part of Kirkman's 1908 "The Science of Railways" series. The first section concerning the actual building of cars is 435 pages, then, there's a second section about the organization of the Car Department, that runs another 269.
I've got that one, and the "Air Brake-Construction and Working" volume. I picked them up in the basement of Owen Davies' Bookstore in Chicago, while I was in high school, for a couple bucks apiece. That was before the big 'restore everything you can get your hands on' era, so nobody wanted them. I also got a bunch of ICS booklets on Locomotives and related subjects, and several Westinghouse Air Brake booklets, back to 1879.
Mike