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Re: New train
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:09:57 GMT
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> I think Boxpox was a brand name for cast drivers that had small round
> holes as their cutouts instead of the more conventional spoked wheels. I
> also think people started using the term for any solid (except for round
> holes) drivers, deprecating the brandname.
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> But I am working from memory. I am sure James, who loves to try to catch
> me in errors, will amplify.
Na, you got it just about right. I don't _know_ of any other makers of 'solid'
wheels for railway engine use, so I think that it is right to call all wheels
like that boxpox wheels. The only class of UK engines I can think of that used
them were some of the Southern Railway Pacifics (Merchant Navy).
James (still looking to catch Larry in a Terminalogical Inexactitude)
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