Anyone familiar with these books? [posted same on Trains.com]

[ChiefEagles]

Father-in-law picked these up somewhere and gave them to me yesterday.

Has stamped on it Pacific Electric Railroad.




This was on an inside page sort of like a book marker.



This has H. S. McCreary Lumber Company, Montgomery, Alabama stamped on it.

[kenneo]

They are exactly what they say they are.

First is what has morphed into the General Code (GCOR).

the second is a multiple ride cupon for either a comute line or a streecar/interurban. You have a PE Rule Book, so probably the ticket is PE as well. The PE operated in Los Angeles and was owned by the Southern Pacific. Known as "The Big Red Cars".

The third (I think, am unsure) is a loading code so that the mill workers can load a car so that the load will not unload itself along the tracks somewhere. I can't really read the small print on the cover. Don't understand the reference to locomotives. Southern Pine As'sn is Miss., Ala., Geo. and a bit of Tenn and SC and NC.

[ChiefEagles]

Thanks Eric. The more I read on the Yellow Pine Limber book. It is the rules for the wood to go into freight cars. Pretty interesting. Lots of requiements on lumber sizes and the amount of pitch int he wood and etc. The other rule books shows diagrams about gaging wheel flange wear, brake hsoe wear and etc. Thanks again. Especially on the info on the Pacific Electric.

[kenneo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Thanks Eric. The more I read on the Yellow Pine Limber book. It is the rules for the wood to go into freight cars. Pretty interesting. Lots of requiements on lumber sizes and the amount of pitch int he wood and etc. The other rule books shows diagrams about gaging wheel flange wear, brake hsoe wear and etc. Thanks again. Especially on the info on the Pacific Electric.

That would make it the Mechanical Rule Book, not the Operating Rules as I mentioned at first.

What did the Southern Pine folks have to say about locomotives? That is a bit confusing to me. I don't see where it fits into the lading code. The locomotive reference on the cover is what made me unsure about what it is.

[ChiefEagles]

Best I can tell, it tells of the grades of lumber and etc as weel as sizes for building freight cars.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Best I can tell, it tells of the grades of lumber and etc as weel as sizes for building freight cars.

So there's no reference to loco's?[?][?]

[Anonymous]

look like some of the little B&O books I get to sort through down at the museum.
Speaking of locomotive diagrams, imagine a 14" x 8" book, 3/4" thick, mint condition, color diagrams, with the cover: "Referance Diagrams for modern locomotive engine parts" and a print date of 1920 [:)]