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A B&LE 'H' Class that never was...

Posted by Nate Clark on February 27, 2012, 8:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Saving a B&LE Class HK-42 or 43"
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Imagine if B&LE had jumped on this hopper experiment with Southern Railway! Picture in you mind the name spelled out, similarly, across the four articulated segments... BE SS EM ER ... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=74476 Yes, those are single-axle bogies under each end of the segments. Look where they later wound up! This was one of two such prototype articulated multi-level auto carriers built for Southern by GSC, right here in Greenville. http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/freight/autorack/souautoguard.html http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=287806&nseq=193 These look quite a bit like the bearing and suspension arrangements on the contemporary GE 'roller blade' locomotive trucks: http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/sou/autorack/sou599000-2.jpg

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Message Thread B&LE Class HK-43 - BLE Bob February 25, 2012, 7:42 am Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - southern man February 25, 2012, 12:35 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - urr566 February 25, 2012, 3:17 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - John H March 20, 2012, 4:57 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - Todd February 25, 2012, 9:42 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - Orange Train / Red Train - Nate Clark February 26, 2012, 5:17 am Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - cxbob February 25, 2012, 10:31 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - John H February 26, 2012, 2:37 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - urr566 February 26, 2012, 4:29 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - Todd February 26, 2012, 8:55 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - urr566 February 26, 2012, 9:44 pm Re: B&LE Class HK-43 - urr566 March 14, 2012, 9:40 pm Re: Saving a B&LE Class HK-42 or 43 - Nate Clark February 26, 2012, 9:14 pm Re: Saving a B&LE Class HK-42 or 43 - Todd February 27, 2012, 3:37 pm A B&LE 'H' Class that never was... - Nate Clark February 27, 2012, 8:25 pm Re: A B&LE 'H' Class that never was... - Todd February 27, 2012, 9:37 pm « Back to index

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