Help With Tool Found

[vjbonkowski]

Hello, this is my first post on this forum, so thank you for the assistance in advance. I recently came across some old railroad/trolley parts on Long Island and I’m having trouble identifying this tool pictured. I believe it’s a brake handle/reverser with a spring lock mechanism but can someone please help with some better detail as to what I have. It is quite old and doesn’t have any discernible markings other than the numbers shown.

 

[bcp]

Contact these places.

Trolley Museum of New York

The New York Museum of Transportation | Train Rides Rochester

Bruce

 

[ShePointsIDig]

Well you certainly picked a good subject for your first post. Really interesting tool.

I don't know anything about reversers, but that looks like a specialty crow-foot adapter wrench, of which millions have (and continue) to be made. EXCEPT for that spring-loaded thing on the open-end wrench. That feature moves this tool out of the "millons" category, but probably not one-of-a kind.

I think it's a crow foot adapter for placing a carriage bolt upward in a restricted space. The spring-loaded thing looks like it holds the bolt from falling out as it is moved into place. I say upward because of the orientation of the drive socket--the place where a ratchet wrench might be attached--but this is just intuition.

My intuition tells me that this would be great for holding a large carriage bolt until the nut was engaged and tightened until the wrench contacted the part; then you could slide the wrench out and use a pry to hold the carriage bolt up into it's slot till the nut was tight.

(Alternately you could tape this thing on to a ratchet and used it on the head of the designer who made such a tool necessary. Just sayin'...)

Let us know when you crack the case.

Art

It's a slow day. Here'e my version of what this tool does. (I realize after I got it all sketched out that the bolt is too small. An open-end crow foot like this one would be for a 3/4-1 inch carriage bolt.)

 

[ShePointsIDig]

All I can really say is, if you need this tool and don't have one, you're stuck.

 

[Kinney]

Not really sure what that is but looks neat

here's mine