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Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: Papaw on July 08, 2020, 01:42:46 PM

Title: Railroad Tools
Post by: Papaw on July 08, 2020, 01:42:46 PM: This picture is not dated, it is of The Brooklyn Rapid Recking tool car. Brooklyn Rapid Transit 1896-1923. It’s a glass negative which explains the crystal clear shot. It’s so clear you could smell the car, look at this tools...you know who ever used those tools, treated them as if he owned them personally. You could eat off that floor.
Title: Re: Railroad Tools
Post by: lptools on July 08, 2020, 03:30:13 PM: Impressive, thanks for sharing!!!! Regards, Lou
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Post by: skipskip on July 08, 2020, 05:25:18 PM: That Rope!!!
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Post by: lptools on July 08, 2020, 07:50:50 PM: Great stuff in that photo!! Is that a jack toward bottom right?
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Post by: Papaw on July 08, 2020, 08:59:50 PM: Looks like a post vise on a pedestal.
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Post by: wrenchguy on July 09, 2020, 08:59:56 AM: Thinks, I wonder they got a coping saw in there?
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Post by: amecks on July 11, 2020, 07:08:26 AM: Yeah, the rope! Gotta be about 3 maybe 4 inches diameter. I wonder how many of those tools still exist today.
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Post by: international3414 on July 11, 2020, 11:34:46 AM: just went back to find the coping saw...lol.....////.,./noticed with two clicks,picture gets a little larger
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Post by: lptools on July 11, 2020, 12:16:24 PM: Hmm, I still don't see a coping saw. But I do see what looks like a metal frame hacksaw, with a wood handle.
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Post by: Yadda on July 11, 2020, 04:25:59 PM: This side of the two hacksaws is a larger saw with a rectangular blade. Also notice the Edison bulbs and the lanterns. I assume the bulbs were D.C.?
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Post by: lptools on July 11, 2020, 05:26:00 PM: That looks like a backsaw!! You will have to wait for an electrician re; the bulbs!!
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Post by: Bill Houghton on July 11, 2020, 05:39:43 PM: Interesting how many monkey wrenches there are.
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Post by: wrenchguy on July 11, 2020, 09:34:56 PM: Quote from: lptools on July 11, 2020, 12:16:24 PM
Hmm, I still don't see a coping saw. But I do see what looks like a metal frame hacksaw, with a wood handle.

That coping saw comment was intended to produce a smile...... Noway would 1 be in there!
Title: Re: Railroad Tools
Post by: lptools on July 12, 2020, 06:26:51 AM: Hello, wrenchguy. You got me! :grin:
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Post by: Northwoods on July 12, 2020, 11:01:32 AM: Cool light bulbs there.
Anybody a bulb collector?
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Post by: Yadda on July 12, 2020, 12:23:08 PM: I assume the two lengths of rail are to bridge or temporarily repair gaps? Seems like there should be something to move them in view.
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Post by: Bill Houghton on July 17, 2020, 11:59:24 AM: Quote from: wrenchguy on July 11, 2020, 09:34:56 PM
Quote from: lptools on July 11, 2020, 12:16:24 PM
Hmm, I still don't see a coping saw. But I do see what looks like a metal frame hacksaw, with a wood handle.

That coping saw comment was intended to produce a smile...... Noway would 1 be in there!
No, railroad guys and gals found other ways to cope :smiley:
Title: Re: Railroad Tools
Post by: wrenchguy on July 17, 2020, 12:29:54 PM: Quote from: Bill Houghton on July 17, 2020, 11:59:24 AM
Quote from: wrenchguy on July 11, 2020, 09:34:56 PM
Quote from: lptools on July 11, 2020, 12:16:24 PM
Hmm, I still don't see a coping saw. But I do see what looks like a metal frame hacksaw, with a wood handle.

That coping saw comment was intended to produce a smile...... Noway would 1 be in there!
No, railroad guys and gals found other ways to cope :smiley:

Winner Winner! Chicken Dinner!!!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: