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Cabooses SLSF 1726-1735 - Bay Window Road Pool Cabooses - Photographs Request

Discussion in '1726-1735' started by FRISCO4503, Feb 15, 2014.

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  1. mark

    mark Staff Member Staff Member

    Ryan,

    Overall and component detail shop drawings definitely existed at the time we were building the bay window cabooses.

    The last I saw them was in the Consolidated Freight Car Shops in the Engineering Office in the balcony outside the Superintendent’s office. We used the component drawings to produce pasts in the various specialty shops. The master drawings were used for overall car erection. We also made an inventory of the parts we brought in at night to supply the production line.

    These drawings should have been in with the drawings and plans acquired by the former Frisco Museum when the shops closed. These were later acquired for preservation by our friend, Frisco modeler and Frisco.org member Louis Griesemer. Hopefully they still exist, can be scanned and presented here for everyone.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks!

    Mark
     
    mark, Mar 2, 2014
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  2. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    Not having a real eye for detail on locomotives or cars, detail is not very important to me, unless the details are upside down.

    I worked for the scrap foreman "Doc Wadell" for some time in and around the scrap yard. He was just told to save certain parts and scrap others. I remember seeing the cut up boxcars. I was told they were for cabooses; however, I have no idea what was used where.

    I did see the wide vision and bay window cabooses new and admired them roll out of the shops.
    As long as they were on the rail, that is what counted.

    Lots of things changed, up to 1980, just on a whimper. Projects were a go one day and scrap the next.

    One day the shop was going to lay off, a week later, before they even got their cutoff notices, there was another order for some other cars.
     
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    William Jackson, Mar 2, 2014
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  3. r c h

    r c h Ft Worth - Tulsa Engineer

    Thanks, Mark.

    I sure would enjoy seeing those drawings posted here.
     
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    r c h, Mar 3, 2014
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