Pat S. Thanks, as you point out the problem I'm having: LIRR MOW roster material:
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Reacher Car- W-27 with Gondola W-5, Welded Rail Flats R-3, R-34 in background at LI City 1/1973Photo/Archive: Art Huneke as you posted.
Previously received:
W-23, W-27, W-29, W-39, W-70
Note: I would rather think that that was NOT a reacher car for the floats. The float flats, as we called them, had a little shanty on them that had a pot belly stove and benches for the crew to get out of the cold.
This one without the shanty would have been used on the east end ladder job as a car to improve vision for the engine crew while rolling the hump. That job continued for some time after the floats stopped operating. Freight came in from Fremont that needed classifying.
The car in question, however, WAS referred to as a float flat. JJ Earl
That particular flat car was a "hump visibility" car, but was listed on the MOW roster as a float reach. UN Blocker
We have conflicting information as to idler cars, float flats, reacher cars, float bridge reach in cars: 434903, 497983, 497993, 497999 on my page, as you indicated, also.
1. The cars used for the floats: Shack or no shack? The shack purpose, besides weather protection. Seems it blocks visibility at the floats, but with the signaling at the Yard A hump, no problem? This is conjecture on my part.
2. Idler cars used in the yard AND with DD1s in electrified territory for non float ops?
3. Cars used for switching the Yard A hump, which ones?
4. Other uses?
5. The information and nomenclature is confusing/conflicting as it appears.