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Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Prewar Budd Trucks

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Prewar Budd Trucks
From: sjl@p...
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:06:44 -0500
In a picture I have of one of these cars (on the DZ in 
1967), they have leaf springs supporting the 
bolsters. Postwar Q trucks were drop-equalizer inside 
swing bolster trucks.

sjl

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From: "docdenny34" <danspach@m...>
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Prewar Budd Trucks

>Charlie Vik inquires about prewar Budd trucks.
>
>Although I cannot be specific as to specifications 
and numbering, 
>probably the most interesting and unusual truck that 
Budd supplied to 
>the Burlington was the series under the cars for the 
General Pershing 
>Zephyr (and the aft end of the SILVER CHARGER 
itself), and some added 
>"pool" cars supplied at the same time (1939). These 
trucks are 
>distinctive in that they were reputedly the very 
first to have disc 
>brakes. They are readily identified by having 
truncated sideframe ends 
>(because the trucks needed no brake hangers). To my 
knowledge, these 
>trucks were "orphans" that were not supplied on any 
other cars to any 
>other railroad. If I am wrong on this, please correct 
me.
>
>These trucks were very much different than what Budd 
supplied to 
>postwar Burlington cars with disc brakes.
>
>BTW, some of these series of Budd built cars were 
both then and now 
>some of the very longest passenger cars ever built 
(89'), one of which 
>SILVER CHEST/EXPRESS? apparently still exists in 
Beech Grove, IN. I 
>last saw it as an Amtrak exhibition car at the 1991 
CSRM Railfair.
>
>Another car of this series, the SILVER STAR (diner-
obs) reportedly had 
>its name changed to SUNDOWNER anticipating its sale 
to Newman Mining, 
>and subsequent shipment to their heavy-haul ore line 
in Western 
>Australia. Does anyone know whether this handsome car 
still exists?
>
>Denny
>
> 
>
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