Post by The Jade Fog, formerly: Dave on Feb 14, 2021 17:39:24 GMT -5
The Buckeye Steel Castings Co. 90-ton six-wheel freight truck dates back to at least 1910. These friction bearing trucks were used on high-capacity gondolas and flatcars, wrecking cranes, locomotive tenders and other heavyweight freight cars. Roller bearing versions of these trucks are still in use today.
source: www.spookshow.net/trucks/buckeye.html
But that's a roundup for N-Scale for N scale... we don't care about that!
So here's a sample of Buckeyes spotted in my collection and some other oddities that are interesting and might show up under your HO scale equipment.
We'll start with the oddballs from Bachmann:
8 wheelers under their heavyweight tenders
6 wheelers under their oil tenders
and sometimes jammed into freight cars
6 wheelers under their Superdome passenger cars
This is the purple casting for the Auto-Train. Other road names were cast in black
Now to the official Buckeyes:
Classic Tyco found on all the cranes and triple tankers
After Tyco's demise, IHC/AHM took the tooling and used it on their triple tankers- The Toy Story Slinky Dog Tanker would be an example.
ROCO/AHM used this under their 200 ton crane
They used this one on their heavyweight flatcar. Common examples are US Army and N&W.
Bachmann used this style under their triple tankers. This is the Whitehouse Vinegar paintjob.
These differed from most Buckeye castings from other manufacturers in that they have cross supports going from side to side like a box frame to keep the trucks from pinching the wheelsets. Here you can just see the support at the back of the truck on their Packerland tanker.
I have to check their center depressed flatcars to see if a different style was used there...
Walther's used this style under their hot metal torpedo cars.
Athearn used this style under their 200 ton cranes.
Here it is under a chopped heavy duty flatcar.
Turning the clock back even further is the style Red Ball used in their battleship gondola. These are a metal cast truck.
Pemco and Playart also had Buckeyes under their triple tankers, but the examples I have in my collection can't be proven to be riding on the correct trucks so I have not included them here. Further research will be required.
Who has other examples?
source: www.spookshow.net/trucks/buckeye.html
But that's a roundup for N-Scale for N scale... we don't care about that!
So here's a sample of Buckeyes spotted in my collection and some other oddities that are interesting and might show up under your HO scale equipment.
We'll start with the oddballs from Bachmann:
8 wheelers under their heavyweight tenders
6 wheelers under their oil tenders
and sometimes jammed into freight cars
6 wheelers under their Superdome passenger cars
This is the purple casting for the Auto-Train. Other road names were cast in black
Now to the official Buckeyes:
Classic Tyco found on all the cranes and triple tankers
After Tyco's demise, IHC/AHM took the tooling and used it on their triple tankers- The Toy Story Slinky Dog Tanker would be an example.
ROCO/AHM used this under their 200 ton crane
They used this one on their heavyweight flatcar. Common examples are US Army and N&W.
Bachmann used this style under their triple tankers. This is the Whitehouse Vinegar paintjob.
These differed from most Buckeye castings from other manufacturers in that they have cross supports going from side to side like a box frame to keep the trucks from pinching the wheelsets. Here you can just see the support at the back of the truck on their Packerland tanker.
I have to check their center depressed flatcars to see if a different style was used there...
Walther's used this style under their hot metal torpedo cars.
Athearn used this style under their 200 ton cranes.
Here it is under a chopped heavy duty flatcar.
Turning the clock back even further is the style Red Ball used in their battleship gondola. These are a metal cast truck.
Pemco and Playart also had Buckeyes under their triple tankers, but the examples I have in my collection can't be proven to be riding on the correct trucks so I have not included them here. Further research will be required.
Who has other examples?
