Stock car details

These photos were taken in the early 1990's in Chama, New Mexico. Some of these photos can actually be used as scale drawings. The black and white painted carpenter's square in the photos has the black and white changing on the one foot marks. On the long end of the square, the black and white stripes are both one inch wide. On the short end of the square, the inside white stripe is 1/2" and the outside black strip is one inch.

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This is the upper door guide and roller. The roller casting is the same as some found on the box cars (as I recall the 4000's). Note the wood door stop and the "Z" steel shape used for the door roller.

The other end of the door guide.

The lower door "guide" is a chain and rod arrangement. Notice how the tension bars in the sides are terminated (next to the needle beam).

The lower door latch is a simple affair.

This is where the wood compression members (side braces) converge over the body bolster above the truck. The metal footing is so that one piece of wood does not wear into another piece to cause a premature failure.



This is where two compression members and one tension member converge at the end of the lower door guide. The wood braces are the compression members and the metal rod is the tension member.

These next four end views were taken in 1992.

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