Talk:Ramsey car-transfer apparatus

Not all truck exchange used Ramsey apparatus

The East Broad Top definitely did not use the Ramsey apparatus. They used a hoist originally used to transfer loads of lumber across the break of gauge, lifting just one end of the car at a time as they swapped out the trucks. Source: http://www.totalracing.com/ebt/stdgauge.htm. In looking up truck exchange used to move cars across multiple gauges, I find that the Nutter Patent Hoist was the pioneering technology. Nutter patented it in Canada. Source: No. 1737, Grafton T. Nutter, Jersey City, N.J., U.S., 2nd November, 1872, for 10 years: "A Railway Wagon Lifting Machine", The Canadian Patent Office Record, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1873); page 8. I haven't found drawings on line, but the Illinois Central installed a Nutter hoist at Cairo, Illinois in 1874, and the Erie installed one at Urbana, Ohio in 1878. There were others, I've edited the pages for those railroads to document hoist use, and I've added them to the list of users of bogie exchange. Someone needs to go through the list of Ramsey apparatus users and carefully verify which ones used one of Ramsey's patents and which used other types of hoists or pits. Douglas W. Jones (talk) 17:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

I agree with this dispute. There's plenty of photo and even video evidence that the EBT used their "Timber Transfer" gantry as a hoist to do the job.

[1]https://oldeastie.com/Tour/timbt.html Msirt (talk) 18:39, 9 June 2023 (UTC)