[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Fred Schneider]

Or does heavier simply mean super resilient wheels instead of the regular design?   There really isn't an easy way to add weight to a B2 truck unless you were to weld weight to the bolster or fill the frame tubes with something like concrete.  I'm skeptical.   I still want someone to tell me how it was done rather than simply tell me the trucks were heavier.   

Phillip, where did you get this information that weight was added to them?  


On May 4, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> I assume they were ballasted by filling something hollow with concrete or lead or somesuch
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 4, 2012, at 2:18 PM, "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz> wrote:
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>> What does it mean "weight"?
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:17 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
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>> Mr.Cefer,
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>> As mentioned earlier, the original B2s with which 1613 started
>> service to Washington in January 1946 had weight added to them.
>> At least by the time that 1614 was converted for interurban service,
>> 1613 and 1614 each got a set of "experimental B3s" that were
>> on the 1200s.
>> 
>> I do not know that 1613 received its original trucks back when those
>> B3s were removed by the mid-1950s but it was nevertheless a hard
>> riding car that was disliked.
>> 
>> One could assume from what I wrote below that the B2s were special
>> trucks; they were not. But they were not good riding.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Phil
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