Job Description:

• 1) Assembles frames, beams, brakes, and springs to form railroad car truck and wheel units, using handtools: Positions bolster on erection block and lowers side frames and brake beams into bolster slots, grooves, and recesses, using hoist.

• 2) Slips brakeshoes into receptacles and secures brakeshoes with pin, using hammer.

• 3) Assembles brake parts, such as bottom rods, traverse plates, fulcrum, and levers and secures unit to brake beams and shoes, using bolts and cotter pins.

• 4) Sets springs on studs in spring housing and places adapters in grooves on axle wheel bearings.

• 5) Lifts complete truck unit over truck wheel assemblies, using hoist, and lowers it onto adapters.

• 6) Pushes truck and wheel assembly along track for next operation.