Hi All,
The trucks Bob speaks of as "Budd Buddy" trucks are officially labeled
41-NDO which means they have four wheels, one bolster, a 9' wheelbase, disc
brakes, and an outside swing hanger. The swing hanger part is the very visible
change from previously produced trucks. I read somewhere that "virtually every
passenger car produced after 1952 had a version of these trucks." That
translates to cars built for any railroad except the PRR. The PRR did have
them under the "Keystone" which was a low-slung train built by Budd and used on
the NEC. The Santa Fe had some 6 wheel outside swing hanger trucks (61-NDO?).
On the El Capitan high level cars I think.
I know Bob Hogan disagrees with me on this, but my favorite passenger car
truck is the old AM one. Without getting into wheelbases, both the old one and
the now ones are 41-something trucks since they have four wheels and one
bolster. The newer ones are often called "AM Budd trucks" because AM produced
them to go under their Budd cars. I prefer the old truck with the BTS detail
kit added to the "working" springs on the newer AM trucks. The BTS details are
much nicer than the cast on bits on the newer AM trucks. And that is probably
more than most of you wanted to know about trucks.
Jamie Bothwell
Waiting for River Raisin to produce 43-R trucks in
Bethlehem, PA
--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
>
> ... I like the appearance of
> the old Budd Buddy trucks with the reliability of the AM trucks, whose
> appearance I don't really like.
>
>...
>
> Bob Werre
> PhotoTraxx
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