Re: Type C/UP trucks

Posted by Jim Courtney on Apr 30, 2020; 4:15am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Type-C-UP-trucks-tp15497p15589.html

I second John's exhortation!

Now . . . just one more thing.

Those Litchfield trucks. They had outside brake hangers as part of the arch bar frame, would be correct for DSP&P days even into the 1890's. But by the time the C&S was formed, they had been removed and the brake beams were hung by chain from the car underframe.

Is it possible to do two versions of the Litchfield truck, one with outside brake hangers, as in your Shapeways On3 truck, and the other with the brake beams suspended out by the little struts as in your first type C truck drawing? The latter would imply brake beams hung from the underframe.

Just a thought.