I had alluded to this photo in another thread awhile back but only just got to restoring the photo.
Garnet
Judging by the shadows it's around lunch time. I wonder what's in the bottle. Do you think?
Not being familiar with railroad equipment what was it used for?
Must be anti-freeze of one form or another, in the bottle.
It's just a railroad motor car Dennis for transporting men down the tracks. For some reason this one was fitted with a Model T engine. There's no obvious means of connecting a pull car behind it so I don't know why the Model T engine ...
Garnet
Dennis,
It was used for transporting men and tools to a work site. Much of the railroads were not accessible by car or truck so these little "jiggers" were used to get to the work site or travel on the track making an inspection or trouble shooting.
Garnet and I have both used them or variations of during our railroad careers.
Is that a Boyco can behind the bottle?
Floyd
Garnet,
The Model T was a popular starting point to make all kinds of things, maybe more power than needed here but it was available and cheap!
I've posted this before.
And another example in Portola, CA