Re: K27 Trailing Truck

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> While it's pretty obvious from the photo of the
> wreck that the pilot truck - at the far left - has
> swung downhill toward the engineer's side, when I
> place a straightedge on the picture it looks to me
> as though the trailing truck - toward the right
> side - is within an inch or so of being directly
> in line with the drivers. Is it being held in
> place by the spring rigging and/or equalizers?

As you can see from the pedestal binders of the main frame outside of each wheel (under the truck frame), that the truck doesn’t have much farther it can travel anyway before it hits the frame. As to what specifically has stopped it’s swing where it is, perhaps it’s the equalizing, perhaps the fireman’s side wheel has hit the ashpan, there’s no way to tell.