Dave, Thanks for the wood-block-gauge suggestion. I think I will definitely use it. I have found several sources for a variety of vintage cars, ranging from Forney's "Dictionary of railroad car construction", to White's "Early American Freight Car", to various road's clearance diagrams, to good ol' Art Griffin's decal and photo collection. I'm not planning a huge collection, maybe three dozen freight cars at the most, but I don't want too many of any one car, either. I presently have three sizes of boxcars planned, with possible sub-variations within each group.
As to appropriate trucks, there are none being marketed now. There are the old Ace arch-bar trucks when I can find them. And there are the Bachmann On30 trucks that are alterable to S scale, the standard one of which visually ends up identical to the Ace truck. The other two Bachmann freight trucks are adaptable, but have no known prototype in S scale. I am hoping to investigate other On30 trucks out there, but the selection seems limited. Again, thanks for the hint. Darrell --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Darrell Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The vast majority of my future (1885 vintage)freight fleet will be > > scratch-built, and I'd like what I build to at least be close to > > product standards, whether that matches NMRA or not. > > > > Any thoughts or info? > > > > Hi Darrell, Vintage freight equipment is a pretty empty area as far > as manufactured models go. I'd imagine you'd be able to create your > own standards easier than finding standards. > There's a great big book of plans for old freight cars(can't recall > the name right now, it might be something like: history of the > american railroad freight car..or not!) i'd look for a copy of the > book then buy some appropiate era trucks then work out my own > standards to get the cars at the right height. Once I had some > measurement I'd cut wooden blocks to use as gauges, one for top of > rail to car floor(for coupler pad height) and some for top of rail to > top of bolster height for each brand of trucks, then all you have to > do is set the gauge for whatever truck you are using onto the body > height gauge and mark the bolster thickness needed....dave To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
