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Ken Weller

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fractured freight cars
« on: May 31, 2012, 09:23:20 pm »
I've been going thru some scans of a "semi-ledger" at WHQ (on shelf A21) that has drawings of car parts (including some caboose parts), shop parts, and detailed drawings of fractured axles of freight cars.  Attached is a spreadsheet I put together of the "foreign" (non-Monon) cars that were wrecked.  Note the number of PRR cars.  Why wrecks/fractures (twice each) at Cary and Fair Oaks?  Note that one drawing is of a car in Kepshire's famous 1954 pile-up in downtown Lowell.  Maybe someone can figure out the type of car(s) where I just have blanks so far (the various drawings do not all have the same amount of info). 
K Weller