http://leanandgreenlocomotive.com/
these switchers are rebuilt. Whose trucks are they riding on?
here's another view of one truck
http://www.ohiolocomotiveworks...ducts--services.html
and some more pics
http://www.ohiolocomotiveworks.com/photos.html
I'm trying to scratch build stuff and getting confused easily! Are they still using old Alco trucks?
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EMD switchers came with what was/is referred to as the "standard AAR switcher truck", or in EMD terminology "the ridged truck", since it was speed limited to 45 MPH.
EMD switchers came with what was/is referred to as the "standard AAR switcher truck", or in EMD terminology "the ridged truck", since it was speed limited to 45 MPH.
That is interesting. Thank you. I guessed wrong again.
If you have John Kirkland's The Diesel Builders, Volume Two, American Locomotive Co., on page 97, he wrote:
"Many railfan writers refer to the GSC rigid bolster switcher truck as AAR type A, and to the GSC swing bolster version of this truck as used under locomotives intended for road service, as AAR type B. The term "AAR Truck" appears to have originated with Alco's personnel at Schenectady, as a means of simplistically differentiating between the Blunt and the GSC rigid bolster switcher truck in the course of everyday communications."
I have compiled more here:
http://www.utahrails.net/locon...loconotes-trucks.php
Don Strack
Wow Don, that's a lot to learn for me. Thank you.
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