[PRCo] Re: More Thoughts on 1600s versus 1700s

[Fred Schneider]

I'm wondering if they weren't city 1700s rebuilt with swing links (B-2 trucks)
instead of the original B-2B trucks.  Jim Holland noted that the trucks were
rebuilt.  And I'm wonder if, instead of actually rebuilding B-2B trucks, that
they didn't just scavenge B-2 trucks off 1600s and 1500s being scrapped.  I would
expect them to ride rough on Pittsburgh's kinked rail.  I would also expect the
1500s not to have any rubber in the truck spring pots because they were wartime
trucks.

HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/9/03 1:30:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kjosephson at sprintmail.com writes:
>
> > I seem to recall him replying there was a
> > much better riding quality on the P.R.O.W. sections with the B-3 equipped
> > 16s as opposed to the B-2 equipped 16s, but all the 17s were better riding
> > than the best of the 16s.
> >
>
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