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Author:  Chris Murley [ Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:50 pm ]
Post subject:  mine car restoration question *PIC*
Hey all, we are restoring an old electric mine lokie that replaced the mules in puling the cars around the mines. anyways in cleaning it up we found the brass data tag still attached..... suprizingly! anyways it states, Built by Vulcan Iron Works Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA, Patent NO. 1,735,137 - Dated NOV. 12. 1929. so i figured i'd search the patent # and get some drawings or some info, but upon doing this something else came up under that number?? Did they reuse #s after so many years? If anyone has any info please let me know. we have some pics of it on our projects page on the site. thanks again

chris

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Author:  K.R. Bell [ Tue Jul 01, 2003 7:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: mine car restoration question
Some Vulcan records and drawings are at RR Museum of PA in Strasburg. Send me a formal request in writing and I'll search the records for you.

K.R. Bell
Archivist
Railroad Museum of PA (PHMC)

> Hey all, we are restoring an old electric
> mine lokie that replaced the mules in puling
> the cars around the mines. anyways in
> cleaning it up we found the brass data tag
> still attached..... suprizingly! anyways it
> states, Built by Vulcan Iron Works
> Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA, Patent NO. 1,735,137
> - Dated NOV. 12. 1929. so i figured i'd
> search the patent # and get some drawings or
> some info, but upon doing this something
> else came up under that number?? Did they
> reuse #s after so many years? If anyone has
> any info please let me know. we have some
> pics of it on our projects page on the site.
> thanks again

> chris


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Author:  Chris Murley [ Tue Jul 01, 2003 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: mine car restoration question *PIC*
Ok, set me up with an address and ill get it to you. thanks alot

chris

Pennsylvania's abandoned coal mine explorers
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chris@undergroundminers.com
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