Four-Wheel Buckeye Trucks

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At 11:38 PM 1/9/09, you wrote:

>I was looking at volume 4 of POCAHONTAS GLORY (it's one of them in which 

>Ralph Morse DOESN'T mispronounce Powhatan Arrow) and in one of the 

>sequences of humping cars at Shaffers Crossing, a B5 box car with Buckeye 

>trucks comes over the hump.


What sort of Buckeyes? The name alone doesn't mean much other than that's 
who cast the sideframes. Which of these did it look like?

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2897.jpeg
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2900.jpeg
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2909.jpeg

David Thompson