N&W Cabin Car Lost in Ithica, NY

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I can't tell you the history of the caboose, but I can tell you that 
those are NOT arch bars.  Those are Andrews trucks, by the look of 
them.  Arch bars were built up out of flat bar stock, whereas these are 
cast.  The Andrews design shared the separate bolt-on journal boxes with 
the arch bar design, allowing some stock of parts to be reused, but it 
reduced the maintenance significantly.

Ken Rickman

On 1/30/2014 8:50 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> A friend from Cornell sent me the attached two photos of an N&W wooden 

> cabin with arch bar trucks which now resides in Ithica, NY. He says 

> the cabin has been in its present location "more than 20 years."

>

> Anyone know the story of this piece?

>

> -- abram burnett



-- 
Kenneth Rickman
Salisbury, NC

One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they're going.  What matters is deciding to get on.


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