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daniel_leavitt2000

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Bowser freight car truck question
« on: August 25, 2009, 09:02:45 PM »
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I asked this a few days ago on the Atlas forum with no response. Can any of you PRR nuts help me out?

Bowser produces three trucks styles. I need to know if these descriptions are correct:

N5/N5C
Pennsylvania Caboose Truck (2A-F5)

H21
Crown Cast Truck (2E-F2)

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Pennsylvania (2D-F8)


Were these manufactured in house by PRR? Were these known by another name, or used by other railroads?
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Robbman

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Re: Bowser freight car truck question
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2009, 10:34:38 PM »
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I'm not at all familiar with PRRs truck class system... other than 2 is for number of axles and the letter is the AAR axle type.

All kinds of truck designs could be said to be manufactured in house, especially before the 1970s or so... when quite a few railroads had their own foundries and could easily cast sideframes and bolsters (and even cast and machine wheels and axles) to whatever design they needed (just look for the railroads initials on the sideframe, that's a dead giveaway it was cast 'in-house').