Tyco Overton Combination Coach ~ Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe ~ ATSF - IOB

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,Really nice Overton Style coach prototype for the Overton cars are some post WW1 cars built for the Sierra Railway. For the vast majority of roads in the 1890-1920 era the Overton cars were not typical; normally 50-70 foot Pullman cars were much more commonly used. The Sierra Railway passenger cars were about 34' long. They had a two car passenger train {other than freight} a combine and a chair car and they were only used on their Angels Camp Branch line where the short switchback tails limited the car length. It's believed that only two or three sets of these cars were built, in the very early 1900's. The cars had Clerestory roofs and open platforms. To see all of Ika's interesting listings go to: Ika's Train Store Combination Car; as the name implies, combines were two types of cars situated under one roof. It became a somewhat standard part of passenger consists relatively early in the railroad industry's history due to its added efficiency by removing one car from the train. The most common type of combine was usually the coach-baggage that could house both passengers on one end and their luggage on the other although there were various types. The car typically saw service service on small, unnamed trains and/or on light branch lines which were lightly populated and not heavily traveled, particularly in the later years of passenger rail travel when patronage was in severe decline. The combine car's genesis began with the baggage car. Railroad executives viewed baggage service as an necessary evil; it brought no additional revenue (aside from a small fee) but was nevertheless a mandatory aspect of passenger service. It is unknown when the first stand-alone baggage car was put into service. However, its earliest known reference dates back to 1833. The term baggage car first appeared in the American Railroad Journal on January 19, 1833 when a fire destroyed a New Castle & Frenchtown Railroad (Delaware's first railroad) baggage car and its cargo, which included $60,000 in greenbacks. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad also mentioned a baggage car that year: The conveyance of baggage on the tops of passenger-cars has been attended with so much labor and inconvenience in loading, unloading and shifting the baggage at so great a height, added to the manifest injury done the cars in the hurry and bustle of these operations, that the necessity of some improvement on the present plan is obviously indispensable. It is proposed to construct some cars and tenders to the passenger-cars for the exclusive purpose of carrying baggage and in constructing them to make two distinct apartments, one for the baggage going to the ultimate point of destination, which will remain undisturbed for the whole trip, the other for the accommodation of way passengers. the combine was not a singular car type but actually described any car that included duel roles such as the coach-baggage-mail, lounge-dormitory, cafe-coach, coach-buffet-parlor, baggage-dormitory-boiler, and coach-baggage. Generally, the term described the car in its head-end configuration carrying a mix of passengers and baggage or baggage and mail/express. The industry's name wasn't even universal as it the car was described as a either a combined, combination, or composite. Torsion bar suspensions have been around since the early 1900s where they first made their debut on some passenger cars. Over the decades that followed many manufacturers adopted a torsion bar suspension design for some of their platform offerings. A torsion bar suspension, also known as a torsion spring suspension, is any vehicle suspension that uses a torsion bar as its main weight-bearing spring. One end of a long metal bar is attached firmly to the vehicle chassis; the opposite end terminates in a lever, the torsion key, mounted perpendicular to the bar, that is attached to a suspension arm, a spindle, or the axle. Vertical motion of the wheel causes the bar to twist around its axis and is resisted by the bar's torsion resistance. The effective spring rate of the bar is determined by its length, cross section, shape, material, and manufacturing process. Historically, clerestory denoted an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows. Similar structures have been used in transportation vehicles to provide additional lighting, ventilation, or headroom. Clerestory roofs were used on railway carriages (known as "clerestory carriages") from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.The first Pullman coaches in England had clerestory roofs, and were imported and assembled at Derby, where Pullman set up an assembly plant in conjunction with the Midway Railway, a predecessor of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The first coach, a sleeping car named "Midland", was assembled and ready for trial-running in January 1874. Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4 business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our International customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 14.12 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2025-01-06T02:27:01.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD