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An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
The locomotive was sold to Lindsey Ashby (who also had IRCA 44) for use on the Colorado Central Railroad in 1972(CC #40) and was transferred to the Georgetown Loop Railroad in 1977 (GL #40) The locomotive was on loan to the WP&YR in 2000 and 2001, and was returned to the G.L. R.R. in 2001.
Loram provides maintenance of way services to Class I and shortline railroads, rapid transit systems, and commuter rail systems [2] worldwide. [6] The Railway Supply Institute said in 2015 that Loram was "one of the leading suppliers of track maintenance machinery and services in North America and the global market". [2]
Lombard 100 HP Auto Tractor Truck Chassis and traction (1916) The first two Lombard log haulers were used near Eustis, Maine, in 1901 prior to construction of the Eustis Railroad. These early machines had an upright boiler and were steered by a team of horses. [3] Most of the Lombard log haulers were used in Maine and New Hampshire.
Hicks Locomotive and Car Works was founded in 1897 by Frank M. Hicks, who had owned an ironmaking company called F.M. Hicks and Company for ten years.Originally the new company was focused on purchasing used steam locomotives and refurbishing them for continued operation, but it quickly branched out into passenger car and freight car construction.
ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches under the brand names of (first) ACF and (later) ACF-Brill.
The model K45 was the largest platform truck in their 1960s catalogs, with a 3,000-pound (1,400 kg) payload. The model 2500 platform truck could carry 2,000 pounds (910 kg), as could the Model E1900 Low Bed Electric. The Kal-Truk was a three-wheel carrier most often used as a dump truck. It could carry 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg).
The invention of the Climax locomotive is attributed to Charles D. Scott, who ran a forest railway near Spartansburg, Pennsylvania between 1875 and 1878. A lumberjack of considerable mechanical ingenuity, Scott sought to bring an improved logging locomotive of his own design to market and brought the drawings to the nearby Climax Manufacturing Company in Corry, Pennsylvania.