VGN BX-10 Trucks

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Hi Martin

The diagram sheet updated through 2-26-1948 lists Andrews trucks for the BX-10, with 44 cars remaining in service.

A note on the listing page noted that the trucks are rebuilt from vacated coal cars Class   H-1, note dated 3-4-1938

Once they were converted to MofW service, all bets are off, as arch bar trucks were still used in non-interchange equipment.

Best
Ken Miller


> On May 1, 2024, at 1:52 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello from across the pond.
> 
> I recently bought a F&C Resin kit of a VGN BX-10 boxcar, the kit does not come with trucks. In researching I can find no reference to the type of truck these cars had in later life (1950s onwards).
> 
> Apparently there are only 2 known pictures of a car in this class in service, VG00446 and VG00266 in the societies archives, both 1951.
> 
> Looking closely at the pictures it appears that the truck on the A end is an "Andrews" style and the truck on the B end appears to be an Arch Bar style.
> 
> I know Arch Bars were banned from interchange by this time but still continued in home road service and as some of these ended up in MofW service that fits.
> 
> Can anyone advise what trucks these cars ran on while still in interchange in the 1950s?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Martin Ford
> N&WHS Member 5590
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