Many thanks to Bill Wulfert, who has sent along a pair of snapshots of Chicago Surface Lines cars similar to the "green cars" in our own collection. These photos are copyright Bill Wulfert and may not be copied or reproduced.
First up, a photo of CSL 2842, which was identical to our own CSL 2843 (history here). This photo shows 2842 while it was still in passenger configuration, but it also looks pretty worn, so I'd guess this is the late 1930s or early 1940s when the car had been in storage for a while but (obviously) hadn't yet been rebuilt as a salt spreader:
And this next photo shows CSL 2848, which was identical to our own CSL 2846 (history here). This photo was likely also taken in the 1930s or 1940s. EDIT: Dick Lukin writes to say that this is definitely 77th Street car house. It looks like they may have been using the 2848 as a shop switcher given that it is shoving what I think is a work flat with a tow bar.
2 comments:
Pushing a flatcar with a tow bar looks like a lot of fun, especially with those substandard flanges. Why don't WE ever get to do this?
Hey Randy- Come switch with the Second Shift sometime. We move all sorts of substandard things in inadvisable ways, usually because it's the only way to do it!
R. W. "a Clark Bar is not candy here" Schauer
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