On Thu, 10/5/17, Tony Thompson tony@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:

Subject: Re: [STMFC] And the weight of the cast truck is? Bolster? (was Weight Of A Freight Car Wheel?)
To: STMFC@...
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017, 2:39 AM

  Dave, you might enjoy my article in
_Model Railroad Hobbyist_ in the issue for September 2016
(download or read on line, for free, any time, at their
website, www.mrhmag.com ). You will
find all this discussed there. Bolsters weighed 1000 pounds
or more, as did side frames, and then add the spring planks
(if any), spring packages, and brake linkage. Most freight
trucks in the transition era weighed between 12,000 and
14,000 pounds.

Tony Thompson          
  Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA
94705         www.signaturepress.com(510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... of books on railroad
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