Re: CP Official car 25
- From: "soolinehistory" <destorzek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:23:38 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jeff Pinchbeck" <jpinchbeck@...> wrote:
Were those produced at Angus shops? Were they produced anywhere else?
Yes, they were produced in Angus Shops. Some Soo Line cars received Burnett
trucks too. I donât know if other railways licensed the design.
Jeff
The Burnett trucks used by the Soo Line (and called out by that name on the
equipment diagrams)were built by Barney & Smith of Dayton, Ohio for orders of
passenger cars they built for the Soo in 1913 and 1914. B&S had tried to
develop their own fabricated steel truck a couple years earlier, which was not
successful. They may have been interested in the CPR design for further
production, but I'm unaware that they were built for any other road.
Drawings for the CPR "all steel" truck were published in the 1931 Car Builder's
Cyclopedia, perhaps also earlier editions. They depict the same trucks as in
the photos Jeff posted, having no end frames. The trucks B&S built for the Soo
cars have end frames, and the pedestals are shaped slightly differently, so
there is no mistaking trucks from the two different sources. Both sets of
trucks are interesting in that they use steel for almost direct replacement of
wood and cast iron. The side beams, which were wood and steel laminations in
older trucks, were replaced by steel channel sections formed into a box section
with steel cover plates riveted to their flanges. The cast iron pedestal jaws
common on older trucks were instead cut from heavy flat steel plate.
In all, a distinctive looking truck not offered in model form.
Dennis Storzek
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