In October of 1863, under Hudson's direction, two 

 2-6-0's equipped with Bissell trucks were built at the 

 Rogers Works for the New Jersey Railroad and Trans- 

 portation Company. Probably some fault was found 

 with the suspension of these machines, numbered 35 

 and 36, for the next 2-6-0, numbered 39, built for 

 the New Jersey road was equipped with Hudson's 

 equalizer. This engine, completed in January 1865, 

 is believed to be the first Mogul so equipped.-' 



The Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Company 

 (see fig. 11) was formed in the 1870's, with A. F. 

 Smith as president, to exploit the patents of Bissell, 

 Smith, and Hudson. For several years notices 

 appeared in the columns of the Railroad Gazette re- 

 porting suits by the Company against various rail- 

 roads and locomotive builders for unauthorized use 

 of their patents. The Gazette of May 29, 1875, 

 carries a protest of the Company against the Man- 

 chester Locomotive Works for unlicensed use of 

 Smith's patent of 1862. In the issue of August 28, 



23 Paul T. Warner, "Mogul Type Locomotives," Railway 

 and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin no. 100, April 1959. 



1875, is reported the Company's success in establish- 

 ing the validity of Smith's patent: 



Some important settlements for the use of the patent have 

 lately been made with the company, one of them being with 

 the Western Railroad Association, whose headquarters are 

 at Chicago, which includes the principal western roads. 

 Through this the company receives its royalty on several 

 hundred locomotives. 



IN SUMMARY 



It can be stated that Hudson's modification of the 

 Bissell truck is of unquestioned importance, for with- 

 out the introduction of the equalizer it is doubtful if 

 the 2-wheel pony truck would have been a complete 

 success on American railroads. Bissell's 4-wheel 

 truck was extensively employed, but it did not enjoy 

 the universal popularity of the 2-wheel truck, and in 

 the 1880's was eclipsed by other forms of 4-wheel 

 safety trucks. The Hudson-Bissell pony truck, how- 

 ever, survived in its basic form to recent times, when, 

 in the late 1940's and early 1950's, the last steam 

 locomotives were constructed in this country. 



