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Wheeling 639

Wheeling Traction Co. 639 is one of only two surviving Cincinnati Car Co. built light-weight curved-side cars. They were called "Rubber Stamp" cars because Cincinnati built a large number of them for railroads across the south. The curved side plates allowed the sides of the cars to bear a major portion of the weight that had been born by large center sills and support beams. There was also a construction time savings because there was less need for actual framing. These techniques would be further refined in the streamlined cars of the trolleys and trains that followed.

Definition

Term	Defined As
Hit 'Er	Work an engine harder. Farmers who commonly use horse teams for work if they see that one of the horses is slacking off and not pulling as hard will often take the end of the reigns and slap them on the back of the errant horse to say "Get busy-no more fooling"!