Re: 6500 series flat cars? Arch Bar trucks

Swissboy Wrote:
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> From what I seem to remember from Sloan's book,
> these never had Archbar trucks. They were
> converted from SG cars and got Bettendorf trucks
> or even had SG ones regauged. I can't remember
> offhand.

I must post a correction. I have now found the info in Sloan's book on page 93. He writes that "At the time of rebuilding" (from old SG steel gondolas) "the frames were narrowed 1'8". Originally they had archbar trucks, but these were very early replaced with 4'11" wheelbase cast steel Bettendorf type." But Sloan does not say anything about the type of those early archbar trucks. For the 6300 flat cars, he says that those "were supplied with 4'8" wheelbase archbar trucks".