Hi Loren,
My 2 cents....
The Allied Full Cushion trucks were banned from interchange in 1955
due to being known to derail.
If you have or have access to Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol. 4,
there is some info on these trucks. Though they do not say what the
reason was for the tendancy to derail.
Greg K.
Minnesota
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> Steve,
>
> I know that the Allied Full Cushion Trucks were banned in
interchange, what
> was the reason? I know the Q ran them under the Geeps and ran them
at high
> speed but I've never heard that the Q had problems with the
truck. I know there
> is an EJ&E Troop Pullman over at Griffith IN that still has the
Allied Full
> Cushion Trucks under it, of course it was in company service.
>
> Loren Johnson
>
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