Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Train
From: lkhermann at bresnan.net (lkhermann)
Date: Fri Apr 1 10:11:34 2005
 
At 05:57 PM 4/1/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>       "Wow!  They really were grinding the rails.  Before I looked I 
> thought I might see something really rare these days, a hot box.  Thanks 
> Lee"
>  Back in the early 70's I worked for a company that made grain hoppers 
> and "slurry' cars....On occasion we would service cars that had "hot 
> boxes" aka blown bearings. Timken put an end to that genre of car. Back 
> then a car had to be "retired" if it was 50 years old even if the 
> "trucks" (wheels) could be upgraded...question is...when was the last 
> "hot box" car made?


I once briefly worked as a "car toad" roughing the packing in the boxes, 
walking through the yard in the dark.  I have seen a hot box sometime in 
the past decade, but seldom see many trains.
Lee