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#1 User is offline   Frank Musick 

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Posted 01 July 2022 - 08:21 AM

Don't have any info but I believe this photo is Alexandria VA, 1864. It shows yet another variant of primordial cabooses.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e8/83/41/e88341197bddc73f85f7f15ef123e89d.jpg


Found it in the March 1961 issue of Model Railroader. "Brakets atop cars held lanterns at night. It was the duty of front-end brakeman to halt the train if the caboose lamp was not visible. Not only did crews live in these cars, but rail supplies, spare parts for cars and some packaged merchandise (LCL?) were also carried".

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Posted 01 July 2022 - 09:49 AM

I think it's Chatanooga, Frank. Those are great way-cars, and even though I have no photographical evidence that these were used in Virginia, I made a couple for the City Point Project.

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Posted 01 July 2022 - 10:40 AM

View PostWeter, on 01 July 2022 - 09:52 AM, said:

Hello, gents.
Maybe my memory have a hole, but what is LCL?


Less that carload. Small shipment.

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Posted 01 July 2022 - 11:09 AM

View Posttimmuir, on 01 July 2022 - 09:49 AM, said:

I think it's Chatanooga, Frank. Those are great way-cars, and even though I have no photographical evidence that these were used in Virginia, I made a couple for the City Point Project.

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You beat me to it. Are they in the library?

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Posted 02 July 2022 - 06:57 AM

View PostFrank Musick, on 01 July 2022 - 11:09 AM, said:

You beat me to it. Are they in the library?

No, not yet, they are for Chris's City Point & Army Line route project.
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