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Author:  W.L.Avis [ Sat May 21, 2011 12:30 pm ]
Post subject:  A bit OT :Tender trucks
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.

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Author:  daylight4449 [ Sat May 21, 2011 2:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A bit OT :Tender trucks
Hmm, they remind me of the fox-type of truck, but there is something different about the way they are shaped...
Author:  Brian Norden [ Sat May 21, 2011 3:14 pm ]
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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.
Author:  Stephen S. Syfrett [ Sat May 21, 2011 6:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A bit OT :Tender trucks
daylight4449 wrote:
Hmm, they remind me of the fox-type of truck, but there is something different about the way they are shaped...


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.
Author:  M.J. Kershner [ Sat May 21, 2011 7:35 pm ]
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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
Author:  mg_thomastx [ Sat May 21, 2011 7:46 pm ]
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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
Author:  W.L.Avis [ Sat May 21, 2011 10:44 pm ]
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Brian Norden wrote:
Who built the locomotive? Alco?

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.
Author:  Kelly Anderson [ Sat May 21, 2011 11:03 pm ]
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Author:  W.L.Avis [ Sun May 22, 2011 1:00 am ]
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Thank you Mr. Anderson.
Author:  Dave Sutter [ Sun May 22, 2011 6:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: A bit OT :Tender trucks
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
Author:  S. Weaver [ Tue May 24, 2011 12:45 pm ]
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I agree, Dave. I thought that this is was what RYPN was for ...
Author:  whodom [ Tue May 24, 2011 1:54 pm ]
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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.... :-)
Author:  S. Weaver [ Wed May 25, 2011 10:31 am ]
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... bomb thrower.
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