--- In [email protected], "David Engle" <RIRocket@...> wrote:
>
> Someone needs to check whether or not Baldwin and Fairbanks-Morse used a
> truck that was a foot longer wheelbase than the corresponding EMD/Alco truck.
> The reason is that Westinghouse traction motors were used instead of GE. I
> think this applies only to the B road truck but not the A switcher truck, but
> I could be incorrect. DJE
AAR Type A: 8' wheelbase
Alco Blunt: 8' wheelbase (apart from a few very early examples in the early
1930s)
EMD Blomberg B: 9' wheelbase
GE motor Type B (Alco, GE, etc.): 9'4" wheelbase
Westinghouse motor Type B (Baldwin, Lima, earlier F-M): 9'10" wheelbase
F-M C-Liner B truck" 9'4" wheelbase
Find a Type A truck from somewhere and fab up a new frame to accept them.
David Thompson
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