When I left the railroad employment in 1990, the ICC had just ruled that
friction bearing cars could not be interchanged. If the cars ran strictly on
the Burlington or any other road that was ok. On the Soo work cars for the
track gangs had old ribbed cast iron wheel. As long as they stayed on the Soo
it was permissible to use the equipment.
Mitch
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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@...
> 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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