1921-1930

Conesville, OH, 1929 from the W&LE Collection in the Michael J. Schwartz Library of Cleveland State University

 

Railroad Infrastructure and Improvements

• 1930 - approximately 2.8 million Class 1 and Class 2 railroad-owned freight cars in service

• 1928 - wood draft sills banned from interchange

• January 1925 - ARA revised dimensional data stencil standards in effect

• May 1925 - nominal capacity & load limit stencils required

• Freight cars equipped with arch bar trucks

• Billboard type reefers and box cars among the freight car fleet

• Very few diesels

• KD and KC brake systems

• Steel-sheathed box cars are a minority

• New York Central Lines is noted on their oval logomark

• Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars bear no logomark

• Berkshire locomotive designs are built in the later 1920s

Location unknown, 1929 from the W&LE Collection in the Michael J. Schwartz Library of Cleveland State University