It was all nice and shiny… it didn’t take long to get trashed !! Maybe you should have a meeting with your workers to tell them to take it easy and respect the equipment?
I do like it all beat up though. Nice job.
Dick Friedman said:
Maybe it’s a milk car?
Unlikely. I think I mentioned this all before, Adnah Neyhart was a real early oil baron. In the late 1860s and early 70’s, his tank car fleet hauled 1/4 of the oil shipped out of the Pennsyvania fields.
That’s why his company was one of the more important ones that John D Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust snapped up (in 1875)… in order to further put the squeeeeeeeze on the holdout small refineries and wildcatters.
Milk travelled in 5 gallon cans inside iced reefers (or occasionally, for very short distances, in the baggage compartment)
Since the layout is buried, these natural light photos on the railing will have to do…
(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/P2050006_zps8d68594c.jpg)
(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/P2050007_zpsca4a2e6c.jpg)
Total new expenditures was $22… mostly on the Ozark stake pockets, nwb castings, brass rod, and the red decals
That turned out really Great Mik…