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Early Wooden Boxcars? - MountainMan - 03-11-2009

Google has defeated me again. I should become a Luddite.

Does anyone know a good image reference site for early (circa 1900's) wooden boxcars, reefers, gons, etc.?

I cannot believe the crap Google comes up with.

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - e-paw - 03-11-2009

Try these two .....
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Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - jim currie - 03-11-2009

MM are wanting old all wood with the queen posts and truss rods or the wood with steel frame ?
Jim

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - doctorwayne - 03-11-2009

Here's one:

Canadian Science & Technology Museum

Wayne

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - nachoman - 03-11-2009

Mountain Man - I am sure you are aware of the photography collection at the denver public library?

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It is great for historical photos. Maybe not boxcar specific, but I search all the time for inspiration.

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - MountainMan - 03-12-2009

jim currie Wrote:MM are wanting old all wood with the queen posts and truss rods or the wood with steel frame ?
Jim

All wood would have been older stuff by the 1900's, while the wood with external steel bracing seems to have been the upgrade.

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - MountainMan - 03-12-2009

Thank you all for you information. Don't know why I have so much trouble finding stuff, but I'm grateful for the help. Worship

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - doctorwayne - 03-12-2009

For a modest fee, you could join HERE. If you're looking for only a limited amount of information, even a month-long membership might fulfill your requirements.

Wayne

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - MountainMan - 03-12-2009

They look interesting, but without a way to even see a sample, I'm always reluctant to part with cash, and they come across as decidely stand-offish. That's the price of a good reference book on box cars!

I do appreciate the reference and the link, but things are a little tight since my mother went into hospice and my plans are back on hold again. Maybe when I have money to spare...

Thanks again to all of you.

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - Sumpter250 - 03-12-2009

MM, don't feel alone in frustration with google. What I've found is that unless you know the exact word, or words to use, google will many times give you a wild goose chase. I think "subject matter" is growing faster than the google "bots" can find and catalog it.
More than twice, now, I've "stumbled into" something I was looking for, while looking for something different. To be "one with the machine" you have to "think like the machine". Unfortunately, I can only think like an analog machine. Eek

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - MountainMan - 03-12-2009

Sumpter250 Wrote:MM, don't feel alone in frustration with google. What I've found is that unless you know the exact word, or words to use, google will many times give you a wild goose chase. I think "subject matter" is growing faster than the google "bots" can find and catalog it.
More than twice, now, I've "stumbled into" something I was looking for, while looking for something different. To be "one with the machine" you have to "think like the machine". Unfortunately, I can only think like an analog machine. Eek

Thanks. It's good to know that I'm not the only one.

Back when it first appeared, Ask.com was a every good search engine, often superior to Google, but I see now that it has become something else. The truly odd thing about Google is that it is programmed by ordinary human beings, but it often seems more like aliens the way the thing performs. I do really get a kick out of the way it often "suggests", due to mis-spelling or some such, the exact thing I am looking for, and then rewards my eager mouse-click with a trip to the Outer Limits. Not as bad as my wife's niece, who once tried to look up some old coins by typing in "large old pennies". I'm sure you can figure out what Google gave her, instead, and she's a Mormon! Nope

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - jim currie - 03-14-2009

don't know of a site for the pre1900's cars but have a lot of plans for them if that's what your looking for .
Jim

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - yellowlynn - 03-14-2009

You used to be able to locate people for free, too. Now you have to become a member of some club or something. Then, probably have to give your life history too.

Lynn

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - Russ Bellinis - 03-14-2009

Google used to work very well when it was a search engine put together by a few people to function better than the commercial search engines on the web. Then it went commercial and started giving paid sites priority over those that didn't pay a premium to Google. The result is that you may have to wade through 3 or 4 or more pages of commercial sites before you finally find a listing of a private individual's web page that has a focus on what you are looking for.

Re: Early Wooden Boxcars? - nkp_174 - 03-15-2009

It seems that turn of the century modeling is on the upswing. Here is a site from a group of guys working on a layout circa 1892. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.housatonicrr.com/">http://www.housatonicrr.com/</a><!-- m -->