Don't try to order one of these diagram books, as I closed shop with Motive Power Services over 20 years ago and the books are no longer available. I am, however, once again working on a BRHS data sheet on freight car trucks which hopefully will come to fruition in the next year. It will include diagrams and, where possible, photos of freight car trucks since the early 1900s, along with listings of the classes of cars which used each truck. Trucks generally stayed with a car throughout its life unless the truck type was banned from interchange by the ICC, such as was the case with, in order, archbar, Andrews and Allied Full Cushion trucks.
Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: fhs1955@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:30:30 -0500
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Question about trucks...
The Burlington Route Diagram Book - Trucks 1930 published by Motive Power Services, P.O. Box 17111, Denver, CO 80217 provides an excellent source for answers to your first question, at least up until 1930 as the subtitle suggests. For most of the truck diagrams it lists the cars on which that particular truck was used.
Jack Ferris
Overland Park, KS
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