TRK103 100t Barber S-2-C Hydrosox Snubber RB, Sideframes, Brake beams & screws (3 pairs)

This offering is ONLY the trucks without wheelsets, included are the Sideframes, brake beams and screws.  Three pairs of trucks total.

The idea is you choose your own wheelsets.

This pair of trucks replicates the 100-ton Barber design produced with roller bearing wheelsets. Specifically, the pattern design is from the Gould Foundry Co. plant, Depew (Buffalo), NY. This variation has the Hydrosox Snubber placed in the central outer position. 

The 100t Barber S-2-C Hydrosox Snubber with roller bearing wheelsets were a special type of truck design starting in the early seventies and eighties and beyond. This was a design to deal with the increase on cars that Exceeded Plate C or ones that have higher centre of gravity like covered hoppers to stop excessive sway.