What maker and style/model are the trucks under this CNJ G-4s tender. I hate to clog up the works asking in here,but I can't find anything on them. Thank you and I am sorry for going OT.

Hmm, they remind me of the fox-type of truck, but there is something different about the way they are shaped...

Who built the locomotive? Alco?

The early Alco diesel switchers used a truck (Blunt design) that was developed from tender trucks. The ones in your photo have a similar, but not identical, look.

I don't know Dylan...they look like cast side frames rather than the fabricated plate design of the Fox-Patent trucks. Georgia Northern 107 (ex-FEC 88) was delivered 100 years ago this month with Fox trucks, but were later changed to a different, more robust cast side frame design. I'll have to dig out the photos but they seem to be similar to what I recall under 107's tender...I checked...nowhere close.

I'm quite sure this was a Baldwin product, as the CNJ was very much in the Reading family at that time.

In better photos I've seen, those tender trucks look quite almost like Flexicoils.

-Micah

From the USRA book I have, they kind of look like what the author called Barber trucks used on some of the USRA passenger engine tenders.

Mark Thomas

Baldwin Class of 1928.
I'm writing an article about the CNJ G-4s engines that were used on the Blue Comet and trying to get all the technical data possible. First thing that came to mind was the trucks were 4 wheel Commonwealth which would fit as BLW and General Steel Casting/Commonwealth were all connected, but I can't find any data or photos of the same.
The whistles used on engines numbers 831,832 and 833 also elude me as they were not standard CNJ issue. Scuttlebutt from some steam guys that talked with old engineers said they were a 6 chime akin the the Reading Company G Class but at a lower octave.

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Thank you Mr. Anderson.

To some this may seem off-topic, but I don't agree I think this is one of the better more appropriate questions for rypn. It doesn't contain the theoretical what-ifs or whimsy dreams of some recent posts.

THANK YOU for asking, I for one feel I learned something from this post

Dave Sutter

I agree, Dave. I thought that this is was what RYPN was for ...

Yep, this is what I come to RyPN for.

BTW- I heard there's a set of these trucks under water in a quarry someplace.


running for cover now.... :-)

... bomb thrower.