Rader Sidetrack Wrote:
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> Vetapass Wrote:
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> > A question for Bill or anyone else in the know,
> > With these new passenger truck builds and other
> > rebuilt/reworked trucks being done, are new
> wheel
> > sets/axles being made, or is this a situation
> > where existing wheel sets from the swamp in
> Chama
> > or the Durango shops are used?
>
> There is a thread with a photo of newly cast
> wheels arriving in Chama in 2017 here:
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> 26912#msg-326912
I just talked to Chris Trunk (he is team leader on all of the frameless cars (guy in the green coat), and works at a steel mill to boot). Chris says all of the new wheels we are getting are forged steel, not cast steel. The FRA does not allow cast iron wheels to be re-profiled once they are worn down, but steel wheels can be turned.