Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Curved-Side Cars Built By Cincinnati Car Company Wagner 1965 Spiral Bound Binder CURVED-SIDE CARS BUILT BY CINCINNATI CAR COMPANY BY WAGNER Copyright 1965. 120 PAGES. Railway Cars of Distinctive Lightweight Design built in the 1920s becoming popularly known as Rubber Stamp Trolleys. Curved-side cars as they came from the shops of Cincinnati Car Company were an exclusive group of interurban, suburban and street railway cars of distinctive design. In order to thoroughly cover the development and ramifications of this unique body type and bring the subject to print now, this presentation has been limited to original cars and does not include photographic record of cars in service or as operated by second and third owners. Development of the curved-side design, it was felt, would best be shown in a chronological record and so the photographs are arranged by date, beginning with February 1922 and ending in December 1929. Information is from records kept from Cincinnati Car Company operations, not railfan conjecture, but, thanks to interested persons including railfans, this material was saved. One fan tells of tracking down original drawings only to find they had just been washed out and the linens sold for rags. Official photographers for the Car Company were Rombach and Groene who covered their assignments with outstanding success. This firm of commercial photographers was located in the 'bottoms' area of Cincinnati and all of their negatives were destroyed in the tragic flood of 1937. All data has been substantiated except for a few abandonment dates. We will be pleased to hear from anyone wishing to add to the record. If there is enough interest in 'in service' photographs showing second and third owners, perhaps this project can be developed. Possible discrepancies in car numbers (office workers were not any more infallible several decades ago than they are today--we are not perfect either) could have occurred among the single-truckers of Kentucky Traction & Terminal in that numbers 28 and 29 were used at Frankfort, not Maysville, or, if they possibly were numbers 38 and 39 they could have been at Maysville. Also, Buffalo & Erie's single-trucker numbers are listed as 20-23 and there is a question regarding numbering as 21-24. KT&T actually got fourteen double- truck bodies over the years but had only twelve at any one time, two being replacements, 305 and 311. "Not resold" in the text refers to cars not being resold to operate as railway equipment and does not refer to being resold for such uses as diners or chicken coops. In piecing together this curved-side car history and identifying pur, a great many leads were followed overa period of more than fifteen years. Among individuals giving direct aid in putting us 'on the right track' and in some cases furnishing both photographs and data were Paul Bien, C. L. Bandy, William Lang, David McNeil, Stephen B. Smalley, Ed Williams, George Krambles, Barney Neuburger, Sol Korkes, Maurice Goldberg, Carlton L. Richardson, A. W. Maginnis, C. L. Siebert, David J. Williams and John West. We are Also indebted to the Atlanta Public Library and to Mr.John Gerson, Vice President of the Atlanta Transit Company. Research was assisted by reference to Electric Railway Handbook, Electric Railway Journal, Electric Traction, McGraw Electric Railway Directory 1924, Rand McNally Commercial Atlas Special United States Edition 1922. Information from Cincinnati Car Company records was compared to other data printed in railfan publications including those of Central Electric Rail- fans Association, Railroad Magazine, Electric Railway Historical Society and Kenneth S. P. Morse, and in such books as The Electric Interurban Railways in America and The Interurban Era. Unidentifiable but still deserving much credit for ferreting out facts were casual questions and conversations, or occasional phrases in print, or hints from lines in letters that sent us checking deeper into specific areas. Thanks to all of these for their part in enabling us to compile a factual record of Cincinnati Car Company's special design of "rubber stamp trolleys." In bringing the project to successful fruition the lithographer's expert advice was gratefully relied upon and the skillful processing of discolored photographs and damaged sales drawings compliments Review Publishing Company throughout these pages. Richard and Birdella Wagner Cincinnati January 1, 1965 All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. 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Location: Talbott, Tennessee
End Time: 2025-01-16T18:38:31.000Z
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