Nostalgia & History > Two Handcars

Picture 2 is from the Calisphere website. 
 
Picture 1 is a portion of picture 2 enlarged. 
 

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Picture 2, “Title: Roy Adams and family in their house.  Creator:  BLD.  Description:  In 1887 a new roundhouse was constructed, and a new larger water tank was required for additional water in order to service another train that was added to the line. Behind this large tank is the framework of a windmill used to pump water from a well for the tanks. Railway gas and water storage tanks are pictured along with the house in the center, which belonged to Mr. & Mrs. Roy Adams. The shop is on the east side, which still stands as of 1982. The shop where Roy Adams worked is not in the photo.  Publisher: Beaumont Library District.  Date: circa 1910.  Identifier: CBEA_031 89-01-11.  Coverage: Beaumont, CA.  Collection: Beaumont Library District Local History Collection.  Contributing Institution: Beaumont Library District.” 
 

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Picture 3 is a portion of picture 2 enlarged. 
 

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Flynn:
I think the 3-wheel hand powered inspection car with a single back-and-forth operating handle would be called a Velocipede, a 4-wheel car with the pump action up and down hand levers is the Handcar.
Thanks for posting.
I have taken refuge from the sun under that tank myself while waiting on trains, back before the DHS mentality set in.

Thanks railstiesballast .  Flynn

Goofy photo caption by the Beaumont Library District.

Water tanks usually aren't erected for one more train  "added to the line."

The smaller tank is for fuel oil, not gas.

The building on the left is not a "shop" but rather a combination pump house and boiler house (at fuel oil facilities on the SP for steam engines, there had to be boiler houses to provide heat for the oil to flow).



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/15 13:40 by johnsweetser.

The middle building is labeled "Signal Repair" in the John Signor-drawn 1913 map of Beaumont on pg. 34 of his Beaumont Hill book.