A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice - looks to be the same. Missing the journal box covers. Hmmmm........Probably a truck side frame that could be reasonably modeled in styrene/resin/brass.

Where's the spring to make this sprung? Some Fox trucks had a leaf spring visible through the side frame to the bolster.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ever notice how clean things were back then? And that includes the large presence of horses and dirt roadways. Maybe part of the reason for that was the total absence of fast-food restaurants, and candy bars, and portable small containers of drinks? Yet, I feel like there was something more to it - the cleanliness, that is.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ever notice how clean things were back then? And that includes the large presence of horses and dirt roadways.

Someone following about the cleaning up after the horses?

Maybe part of the reason for that was the total absence of fast-food restaurants, and candy bars, and portable small containers of drinks? Yet, I feel like there was something more to it - the cleanliness, that is.

It was never the fault of the fast-food restaurants, and candy bars, and portable small containers of drinks - it was and is the people that chose and choose to be selfish, irresponsible jacka$$es with their completely misplaced sense of self-entitlement.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

yup. I was just mentioning the raw resources available for the grubby paws; not a day goes by that I don't see such litter - a piece or two - in my sideyard. today it is an empty bag o chips.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

yup. I was just mentioning the raw resources available for the grubby paws; not a day goes by that I don't see such litter - a piece or two - in my sideyard. today it is an empty bag o chips.

Sadly, it's not just younger folks at fault here - it's a full cross section of the numptytization.

[webenda]

Nice - looks to be the same. Missing the journal box covers. Hmmmm........Probably a truck side frame that could be reasonably modeled in styrene/resin/brass.

Where's the spring to make this sprung? Some Fox trucks had a leaf spring visible through the side frame to the bolster.

The truck under your gondola picture looks more like a Schoen Pressed Steel Company product.
Maybe the one shown in this patent. [Opinion of the moment.]

Reference:
https://www.midcontinent.org/rollingsto ... steel1.htm
https://patents.google.com/patent/US563 ... el+Company

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice - looks to be the same. Missing the journal box covers. Hmmmm........Probably a truck side frame that could be reasonably modeled in styrene/resin/brass.

Where's the spring to make this sprung? Some Fox trucks had a leaf spring visible through the side frame to the bolster.

The truck under your gondola picture looks more like a Schoen Pressed Steel Company product.
Maybe the one shown in this patent. [Opinion of the moment.]

Looks much closer; see now the coil spring above the journal box, too.

[J. S. Bach]

...snip...

http://www.spookshow.net/trucks/fox.html
Making a guess, the gondola has an improved, sprung, version of the above Fox truck.

It must be improved , it has roller bearings installed and a hole cut/torched in the bottom front for drainage due to the journal box lid being removed. Bettendorfs were done this way for awhile when roller bearings were mandated by the FRA. Atlas offers one in O although in typical Atlas fashion, they only went 90% of the way; the bearing caps do not rotate .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

The building on the right looks interesting.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The building on the right looks interesting.

No real idea what that building was/is.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The building on the right looks interesting.

No real idea what that building was/is.

College president's residence, complete with picturesque ivy 'n all?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The building on the right looks interesting.

No real idea what that building was/is.

College president's residence, complete with picturesque ivy 'n all?

Doubt it -- they could do a lot better for the college president's residence,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh. Ah, OK.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh. Ah, OK.

Well, the college was and remains in a very nice end of town. You should take a look someday!