Don Heimburger had a good supply of older kits and parts from an estate, priced
attractively.
Needless to say, I stocked up. Among the purchases were both some Ace
Bettendorf kits and the AF conversion bolster #2012 for hopper cars. I'd
bought an already-converted AF hopper early in my S scale buying stage so was
familiar with the idea; not long after I got home, I used one of the conversion
bolsters on a spare AF stock hopper and all worked fine. Then I tried another
bolster set on an AF covered hopper (with the odd heavy plastic circular
business) and found that by grinding away a bit at the rear opening I could use
the #2012 for that. Lastly, I tinkered with an AF gondola and succeeded in
installing the #2012 there. Didn't work on the cast-metal AF flatcar I'd
bought, however. I think I'd seen in a posting that Ace made a different
bolster conversion for the flatcars. How many other Ace conversion castings
were there?
And I don't recall whether I got an answer when I asked some time ago after an
early purchase of Ace archbar trucks (also true of the Bettendorfs, although
not of the roller-bearings), that there is obvious provision for brake shoes,
but none included. Did Ace ever offer brake shoes for the scale trucks? I am
guessing they were an option for scale modelers, as there would have been no
clearance for AF flanges with them.
Jace Kahn (who now has, if not a lifetime supply of S scale trucks, at least a
sufficient number for a long time--and is not planning on supplanting his
excellent SHS and AM rolling stock with
lots of converted AF cars)
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