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jasonsobczynski · **Posted:** Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:41 pm

jasonjohnson wrote:

Kelly,

I am curious what material you used for the driving boxes? Were you able to use a standard alloy or a special blend? I often here lots of discussion about metallurgy and am curious if you would share with the group how you choose your materials.

Thanks,
Jason

Greetings Jason,

I as well as several others (I'd wager SRC included) find it best to seek OEM specifications for material types. If I had my copies of the Baldwin, ALCo and Lima specification books with me I'd gladly share what they have to say.

I do know there are driving box steel specs in at least two of the three. However, those specs are for boxes which utilize crownbrasses. For your driving boxes (as well as many other material specifications) I'd purchase a copy of Niagara blueprints from the New York Central Historical Society: http://nycshs.net/NYCS-Drawing-Files-St ... p_189.html

There is likely to be much information contained given the similarity in equipment between the Niagaras and J1s.

Cheers, Jason

Cheers, Jason

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