Author Topic: When exactly (day, month, year) were Allied Full-Cushion trucks banned?  (Read 208 times)

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OldEastRR

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I mean from general interchange service. I've seen '55 or '56 or '59 as given, or even cars running on them in the '70s!!

https://railroadforums.com/forum/index.php?media/allied-full-cushion-trucks.17868/

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Re: When exactly (day, month, year) were Allied Full-Cushion trucks banned?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2026, 07:06:28 AM »
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The Pennsylvania seems to have stopped accepting them following a February 3, 1955 derailment. There is some New Haven archival documentation as a source for that, found here: https://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22665

This ban by the Pennsylvania seems to have been enough to get the New Haven to convert the rest of their cars, but its not an AAR ban. There was a proposed ban, but it didn't get the necessary votes. Even with a ban, you can keep running things on your own railroad, which for head end equipment means it could stay in service for quite a long time as is.