Shawmut Day 09/21/2003 |
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Shay 10/04/2003 |
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Acquisition of Arch Bar Trucks | |
In early October the B&W was able to pick up five pair of twenty-inch gauge arch bar trucks. These trucks will be rebuilt and re-gauged to twenty-four inch. The trucks were used under small coal hopper cars on a US Navy coal Pier in New England many years ago. They were pulled by a system of cables and pulleys for fueling Naval ships. The exact location of this operation is unknown, but it would date prior to WWII as most naval ships converted to fuel oils either before or during the war. | |
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