Locomotive wheel peeler. - Trains Magazine

CShaveRR wrote:

Never heard of a wheel-peeler on a railroad, unless it's an engineer who doesn't know how to start his train. In HO scale, you may wish to try the modeling forums.

Sorry about that Carl..I should have been more informative with my question and I enjoyed your comment about the engeneer LOL

I was a wheel shop forman and used the slang for a wheel truing machine. I did not want to confuse it with a tread lathe where the wheel set is removed from the unit, then disasembled from the traction motor, then reprofiled in a wheel lathe as a wheel set.

A peeler is the truing maching in a pit,  that the locomotive is blocked over, and the machine reprofiles the tread under the unit. There are two types a mill and a cutter type. Perhaps there are other type's now, retired more years ago then I care to count.LOL

Anyhow we used the slang for a pit lathe as a peeler and the out of unit lathe as a tread lathe.

I have been searching a lot of forums for a pic, hoping someone here may have the info.

Take care...John