Fwd: Re: (erielack) CWR Trains

[Rich Young <ryoungceo_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Rich Young <ryoungceo_@_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rich Young <ryoungceo_@_yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (erielack) CWR Trains
> To: Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
> 
>       CWR Trains were, in the begining, dedicated
> and
> owned by the steel companies and moved from railroad
> to railroad depending upon the project. There are
> pictures of one in the Track and structures
> Cyclopedia
> ( I can't remember what year) but it doesn't give
> any
> detailed description of how the operation worked.
> From
> what I remember it just had a photo caption that
> read
> something like this (though don't quote me)  XXXX
> Companies special train delivers and helps lay the
> the
> long lengths of CWR.
> 
>   Also, Thermite Welding of shorter lengths goes
> back
> all the way to the late forties if not earlier.
> Usually for problem joints and areas.
> 
> Rich Young
> 
> 


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