Re: (erielack) Six-wheel trucks on head-end cars

[Tim <njmidland_@_peoplepc.com>]

Along these lines everyone who ever rode on the Erie heavyweight diners remarked about their riding quality.  I suspect that it helped a lot as track conditions on the EL declined.

Tim

- -----Original Message-----
>From: RAILDATA_@_aol.com
>Sent: Feb 17, 2006 5:47 PM
>To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Six-wheel trucks on head-end cars
>
>All six wheel trucks on passeger equipment were used because of the axle 
>laoding of the loaded car. Note that many fairly recently constructed baggage cars 
>were 4 whl trucks on 60' cars. The 6 whl trucks were almost always on 70' or 
>longer cars.
>
>Also, all steamine equipment that I know of was contructed with 4 whl trucks, 
>with the exception of the ATSF / AMTK bi levels and some Milw cars.
>
>There was an excellent article on the riding qualities of trucks and 
>passenger car design in genreal in an issue of R&LHS Journal back about 25 years ago. 
>There were the resluts of riding quailities of passenger truacks and the 
>smoothest riding was the ancient ones used on the 1914 vintage PRR P-70 coaches!
>
>This subject is quite well documented but you have to searcha bit in the 
>technical literature.
>
>Chuck Yungkurth
>
>
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