> The South Carolina RR Museum has a Pressed
> Steel Co. flatcar with Fox trucks...and
> climax 3/4 size couplers. This car is the
> only surviving piece of equipment from the
> Guinyard Brick Co. RR. in West Columbia,
> S.C. We think it may have begun as a
> gondola, and our curator is currently
> reserching this car.

> Mike Gellner, Member SCRM

Here's what I know:

The car was built in 1906 by Pressed Steel car. The entire car is fabricated from pressed steel shapes. The pressed side sills have "Carnegie" embossed in them.

The Climax knuckles are *not* 3/4 size. They are just small. When I was hunting for a knuckle I discovered that true 3/4 knuckles are even smaller than the tiny things on that car. Within the last week or so I finally got a knuckle to replace the one that was missing on the A end. The worn-out lock will need some work in order to make the knuckle catch in the closed position but otherwise the knuckle fit like a glove.

The car has incredibly weird cut levers that are *inside* the frame. Actually I should say it has *a* weird cut lever as the one on the A end is missing -- that's my next project in the car's restoration. Both cut levers seem to have been on the same side of the car.

By 1965, the car was in MOW service at the Guignard Brick factory in Cayce, SC, and had been for some time. I'm still trying to figure out where Guignard got it. Any ideas would be welcome. I'd thought I'd identified it as a UP car, but the number of stake pockets is wrong.


The South Carolina Railroad Museum
mconrad@compuzone.net

> Must compare but I believe GN 107 still has
> the short tender - although given shortline
> tendencies, the tender might not be the
> original. There are supposedly archival
> photos of 107's tender on fox trucks on GN
> but now the trucks have been exchanged for
> nothing special.

> Do you have drawings of 113 tender?

> Dave
I can confirm Georgia Northern 107 (ex FEC 88)has an original short tender. I say "an" because the tender with 107, apparently the one that came with the engine from FEC in 1929(I believe) is actually from FEC 126. A photo of 107 soon after arrivel on the GN Ry shows the tender with what appear to be Fox trucks. As Dave noted, the tender now rides on "nothing special", a pair of ERIE RR freight trucks. (No offense to Erie fans.)

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