Barney cars: origin of the name

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Thanks Harry for confirming about Lambert's Point:

However the question still remains: WHAT is THE origin of the NAME
"BARNEY" for the cars. Any ideas of the age and origin of that
particular name?

Thanks.

Bob Cohen



> Not sure about Sewells Point, but Lamberts Point

> had a Barney Yard -- by my recollection, there

> were two barney yards, sixteen tracks each.  One

> class of coal was put in each track, then using

> an illuminated number panel showing the track #,

> the pin puller would cut the car off to roll by gravity

> toward the dumper. It was possible to dump four different

> classes of coal at the two rotary dumpers at one time.

> Harry Bundy

>

> Neither. I meant the Barney cars which move the or moved the hoppers

> at Lambert's Point?

>

> Barney & Smith manufactured cars for railroads way back when and the

> Birney streetcars made their presence well-known on trction systems

> and a number have survived today.

>

> If I am using the wrong term for Lambert's Poinbt where they moved the

> coal hoppers to be turned and dumped, those are what I am referring. I

> had always thought they were referred to as Barney cars but will stand

> corrected if I am in error. A friend asked me today.

>

> Bob

>

>

> Do you mean the Barney and Smith cars, or the Birney Streetcars?

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