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misaligned and stick or jam in the pedestal jaws, thus seriously
affecting the truck's riding and tracking qualities. For this rea-
son, the popularity of pressed steel trucks was short-lived.
Cast steel trucks with separate journal boxes
As with pressed steel construction, complex steel castings
became more readily available and less costly in the closing
years of the 19th century, leading to the development of truck
designs employing cast steel side frames and bolsters. One of
these was the Verona truck, produced by the Standard Steel
Car Co. (6). Like the Fox truck, the Verona truck had vertical
pedestal jaws with the springs located above sliding journal
boxes, and thus it suffered from the same problems as the
Fox and other pressed steel trucks of similar design. Though
Verona trucks were used briefly and in limited quantities by
some northeastern railroads, they were not widely adopted.
Much more successful was the Andrews truck, which was
widely accepted and progressively improved. Andrews trucks
had separate journal boxes bolted into cast steel side frames
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6. Similar in concept to the Fox pressed steel truck but
made of steel castings was the Verona truck made by
the Standard Steel Car Co. It suffered from the same
problems that afflicted pressed steel pedestal jaw trucks.
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