Re: Brake staff /cylinder confusion and mismatched trucks!!

Posted by Jim Courtney on Sep 19, 2015; 4:18am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Brake-staff-cylinder-confusion-and-mismatched-trucks-tp3464p3479.html

Doug,

I think what I am calling the 14 ton coal car trucks are the same as your "type C" truck. That is a great photo of the trucks on flanger 013 in the Grandt book.  I have been modifying some old Rio Grande Models 4' wheel base Carter Brothers trucks to model this type; the transoms are a bit skinny but they come closer than anything else available.

I've been staring at turn of the century wreck photos in my books the past few nights, hoping for the epiphany that will make the brake rigging clear on the inherited cars.  I keep finding new photos of wrong end brake staffs, but no elusive upside down 1882-1884 built car to clarify things.

Thanks for the photo reference.

Jim