Eastern Railroad Discussion > Old Powerful Coal Trucks & Cooling Towers

Hi Guys
Just a little old history
Old and powerful coal trucks and then some cooling tower near BelmontbW Va
Tom Boylan

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Net stop for the trucks will probably be the scrapper.
ALLEN

Cliens or Macks? Cab looks like a M45 but hood looks like a Clien.

Jim

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Hi
Thanks for the info,did not know the brand or model
Tom Boylan

Very nice trucks. Hope somebody could preserve one of them.

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Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

Wow, those trucks look like real brutes.  Probably a really low top speed but they could probably pull the chrome off your bumper.  Oh wait, bumpers don't have chrome anymore.  Oh well, you get the idea.  No "Body by Fisher" either, just metal where it needs to be to get the job done.

John

Max Cline started manufacturing Cline trucks in Kansas City in 1952.  He died in 1957 but the company continued.  Internet search for Cline Off-Road Truck Company will give a complete history.  Company also built crane carriers.  DSRC owned two second hand, the first, ex-SP, was a fixed boom that could lift one end of 100T capacity car with the cars truck chained up to the body when rerailing.  The second, ex-CNW later UP, had a rotating telescoping boom, able to lift a complete freight truck along side the vehicle and swing it around the end and put it on the track.  It could also lift one end of a 100T capacity car w/truck.  It was a heavier rig and required a detachable jerry axle attached to the rear to make it road legal.  The trucks were sold off by the Class I's when side boom Cats proved to be quicker and more flexible.  Not real fast, about 45 mph on the highway, and not very pretty, but hell for stout.

Alex Huff 

Hi Alex Huff
Thanks for the info on the trucks and the cranes
Tom Boylan