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Reply to "Pilot Trucks on Steam Locomotives"

For what it is worth, on the Santa Fe where cabooses are waycars the "official" terms on blueprints and in engineering reports are "trucks, engine and trailer".

S. Kip Farrington, Jr in his "The Santa Fe's Big Three" in the text refers to them as "leading" and "rear" trucks.  And he probably did so as they are the most descriptive and easiest understood by the lay reader.

Larry Brasher's "Santa Fe Locomotive Development" mentions both "lead" trucks and the "Santa Fe patent Batz engine truck".  And he uses "trailing truck".

 

Allan

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