trucks
dayoung007
Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:41 AM
New Orleans cars (the originals, not the replicas) run on Brill 76-E
trucks. This is an equal-wheel two-motor design and was so promoted by
Brill. A lot were made over the years, and a lot of Brill 77-E/177-E
and their EX derivatives were also made--these being an equal-wheel
four-motor design, the EX designation given to trucks specifically for
low-floor cars with small diameter wheels.
Not being an expert on truck engineering, I don't know what the
differences were between the two basic types, but since the trucks
look identical to a layman's eye I wouldn't have thought there was a
great deal of difference except in the springing and overall balancing
of the truck. Even then, earlier versions of both types seem to have
slightly different springing to later types. The 77-E was longer than
the 76E and used inside-hung motors. Can anyone supply a more accurate
answer?
In any event, Blackpool was no stranger to equal-wheel two-motor
bogies in 1933. Their previous standard truck, still to be seen in the
UK on their Standard cars and on other older Blackpool survivors, and
in the US at Seashore and on the Willamete line (if Blackpool 48 still
runs on that operation)was just such a creature, English- designed and
built but with a superficial remblance to a St. Louis Car Co. 47 which
was a four-motor truck.
Were there any such creatures in NZ/OZ, i.e. two-motor equal-wheel
bogie cars?
Andrew D. Young
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trucks. This is an equal-wheel two-motor design and was so promoted by
Brill. A lot were made over the years, and a lot of Brill 77-E/177-E
and their EX derivatives were also made--these being an equal-wheel
four-motor design, the EX designation given to trucks specifically for
low-floor cars with small diameter wheels.
Not being an expert on truck engineering, I don't know what the
differences were between the two basic types, but since the trucks
look identical to a layman's eye I wouldn't have thought there was a
great deal of difference except in the springing and overall balancing
of the truck. Even then, earlier versions of both types seem to have
slightly different springing to later types. The 77-E was longer than
the 76E and used inside-hung motors. Can anyone supply a more accurate
answer?
In any event, Blackpool was no stranger to equal-wheel two-motor
bogies in 1933. Their previous standard truck, still to be seen in the
UK on their Standard cars and on other older Blackpool survivors, and
in the US at Seashore and on the Willamete line (if Blackpool 48 still
runs on that operation)was just such a creature, English- designed and
built but with a superficial remblance to a St. Louis Car Co. 47 which
was a four-motor truck.
Were there any such creatures in NZ/OZ, i.e. two-motor equal-wheel
bogie cars?
Andrew D. Young
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