N&W Cabin Car Lost in Ithica, NY

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Single-truss Andrews, at that (I think).  Pretty rare, I think.  (I've been a truck freak, but I didn't realize that single-truss trucks existed until late in life.)

pete groom
On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:54 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> 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

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> 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

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> Kenneth Rickman

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