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 Post subject: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 2:10 pm 

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How many preserved freight cars have Fox trucks? The Illinois RR Museum has one box car:

https://www.midcontinent.org/equipment- ... ouis-4570/

The Northwest Ry Museum had two flat car but one has been scrapped. I believe the mining museum at Butte, MT has at least one box car with Fox trucks but can't verify that. Orange Empire has a BA&P box car with Fox trucks.

Any others?


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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 2:38 pm 

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Guignard Brick Works No. 234 at the South Carolina Railroad Museum.

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 2:40 pm 

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John T wrote:
How many preserved freight cars have Fox trucks? The Illinois RR Museum has one box car:

https://www.midcontinent.org/equipment- ... ouis-4570/

The Northwest Ry Museum had two flat car but one has been scrapped. I believe the mining museum at Butte, MT has at least one box car with Fox trucks but can't verify that. Orange Empire has a BA&P box car with Fox trucks.

Any others?


You say there is a car at IRM, but provide a link to MCRM?

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 2:56 pm 

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Sorry about the IRM/MC mix up. It is all back east from here. Hereis one I forgot:

Fort Steele, BC-Fort Steele Provincial Park
Vulcan Iron Works C/N 416 Steam Shovel (boiler & parts missing) 1901
Crowsnest Southern Ry
Perry Creek Placer Mining Co. Kimberley, BC 1902
Abandoned on Perry Creek 1920-2011
http://www.dualsportbc.com/forums/showt ... ide-Report
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMVK ... _Steele_BC


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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:42 pm 

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Railroad Museum of Long Island has a pair, but literally just the trucks only.

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
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RMNE has a flatcar (New Haven?) that has the Fox trucks. I'm not sure if I have a pic of it. It is an interesting car.


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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 6:36 pm 

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Thanks for the lead. The RMNE car is New haven #7447.


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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:16 pm 

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Steamtown NHS has a wooden B&M(?) boxcar with fox trucks, also, the tender of the Rutland pile driver has them.
I would note they both made the move from Bellows Falls to Scranton on their own wheels!
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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:24 pm 

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Back in August of 2016, the Park Service scrapped several wooden cars at Scranton, including Claremont and Concord Railroad Snowplow 60. It was built by the Boston & Maine Railroad Shops some time prior to 1910. C&C was a branch line of the B&M until 1954. According to the NPS, the rear truck was a Fox-patent pressed-steel truck. I do not know if this truck was preserved.


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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:48 pm 

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Eureka Springs & North Arkansas had at least one flat car or the remains thereof equipped with fox trucks. It's been over a decade since I was there so can't confirm that either car or trucks still exist.

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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 9:22 pm 

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The Western New York Railroad Historical Society owns ex-NYC snowplow #X-659 originally built in 1889 which has fox trucks albeit re-built with roller bearings.

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 9:51 pm 

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Last time I was at RRMPA they had a Fox truck or two in the progressive line of trucks outside behind the main building. I don't recall there being a car on Fox trucks though.

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 1:52 am 

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Regarding the Orange Empire has an ex-Butte Anaconda & Pacific box car with Fox Trucks.
See this thread from 2009:
New (old) box car at Orange Empire

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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 9:23 am 

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Thanks for all the input. Just for the record the Alco rotaries do not have Fox trucks. They have plate trucks which are very different from the Fox design.


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 Post subject: Re: Fox trucks
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 9:46 am 

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In the back of my mind I seem to recall the tender of FEC 113 being on Fox trucks.... or maybe a similar style. Perhaps somebody with Gold Coast can chime in.

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