Greetings Charlie
I am most grateful for your insights.
Being new to this, I may have mistaken the Andrews
pattern trucks for Arch bar trucks on the C&S way cars
built in the mid 1920s.
The longevity of the Q NE 1-9 way cars is incredible;
and the trucks design seems to have endured remarkably
well. Apart from a few experiments (eg the Allied Full
Cushion) they where not changed out.
Did the Q way cars run in a pool with the C&S/ FW&D,
as did the early F units, and travel through Colorado
and down into Texas?
Regards,
Mark Sellars
--- Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:
> As a further observation I have since found some C&S
> caboose pictures and
> they have a Andrews-pattern (although "flatter" than
> the common kind) on
> them.
> The standard No.7 truck was a CB&Q design. I am not
> sure if the Q provided
> the castings to commercial builders constructing
> waycars (Pullman,
> St.Charles, Peninsular, etc..) but all the waycars I
> have seen have the
> standard No.7 truck. It was mostly Oak and other
> hardwoods (I would have
> to dig out my drawings to confirm) with a few metal
> castings for the
> pedestals and washers, spring bases, etc.. and some
> strap metal for the
> brake shoe hangers, etc..
> The truck was very successful and was copied by the
> UP and C&NW as well as
> the MP and probably other roads.
> Q waycars with these trucks are certainly in the
> running for the longest
> lived equipment in operation on American railroads
> with some of them tracing
> their lineage to original dates in the 1870s or
> earlier and with the last
> ones being retired well after the BN merger.... they
> were pulled in service
> by everything from brand new 4-4-0s to SD40-2s!!!!
> Charlie Vlk
>
>
>
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