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Jeff, Sorry for this barrage of questions rather than answers; About how big is the Box Car? Inside or outside frame? Have you dated the photo? Do the cars in the photos look like new arrivals? The way you mention the gondola body and trucks being marked "15" makes me think of shipping labels to mak...

Sometimes the Baldwin specification sheets can be a bit frustrating.... C&C 1-4 had 41 inch drivers. Case in point of how frustrating they can be, the #4 was delivered from the factory with 44" drivers. This is based on photographic evidence and Southern Pacific shop records. There has to be a reas...

I was supposed to be cleaning up files on my hard drives yet some how ended up delving through Baldwin Spec books and looking online for maps of long lost ROWs. On the bright side I stumbled across this website which provided several hours of fun: http://www.historicmapworks.com/ They have quite the...

The Colusa and Lake Railroad had a few passenger coached built for them by the Hammond Car Co., did Hammond also build their own trucks or would they have been bought from another manufacturer? If from another manufacturer, then who? If built themselves, do any examples survive or drawings exist? Lo...

Here's an over simplified reference guide to the development of "Swing Motion" in Engine Trucks:
Cheers,

Curtis F.

Alco used a trailer design that mainly supported the frame directly by means of a plate on the truck sliding on a plate on the frame. SV 2-8-2 s, K-28s and K-37s all had this crude but effective design. It accounted for a smooth ride. Slather on the gear lube, though. John, Thank you for the first ...

cast steel delta link equipped commonwealth style trailing truck (did I get all those typically Std gauge terms correct hehe. Trailing Engine Trucks are a rather over looked area of research regardless of gauge. Type: Commonwealth "Commonwealth" is a type of frame design/construction developed and ...

On the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes 2-6-2's the trailing truck was also used for guiding when running in reverse which they had to do when working the branches. Chester, The vast majority of trailing trucks, regardless of gauge of locomotive, do guide the locomotives as well. Though generally to a ...

On early 4-4-0's (1850s - 1870s) is was not uncommon for the Engine Truck to be a rigid design with a bolster in the middle which would allow it to pivot around it's center point. When this was used the front drive wheels were Blind (no flanges) so the locomotive guided on the 4 wheels of the Engine...

First off, sorry, no drawings of No. 111. And now I know for certian. Thank you! We're trying to put together a listing of the available drawings but there is a huge amount of stuff to go through. We also have to figure out which drawings go where. There are some aspects of historical research I'm ...