Hi Jace; I saw two similar sideframes on the Q Car site, both Alco, with different lengths. Off the top of my head, one was 84 inch wheelbase and the other was 78 inch, which would be roughly 9 ft and 8 ft 6 in respctively. Flatt is a possible source I did not check.
Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:05 PM, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: I rather doubt it, as GE and Alco (later GE alone) built the sideframes for the steeplecabs and boxcab electric locomotives on which the first diesel switchers were based, so the Q-Car shorter GE locomotive sideframe (or Wagner/Current Line equivalent) would be correct for an O scale model but 25% too large for an S scale one. Didn't someone produce an S scale steeplecab sideframe? Hoquat to go with his steeplecab or Flatt? Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. Another possibility would Q Car company traction side frames in O. They have a couple of Alco designs that look very similar to the boxcab trucks. Since trolley trucks are smaller, they might work out ok. Q Car Company has a web site. Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Richard Karnes <[email protected]> wrote: All -- The I-R boxcab trucks are very similar to trucks once offered by S Scale Loco & Supply as Reading "dolphin" tender trucks. I used a pair beneath my steeplecab electric. Maybe SSL&S owner Fred Rouse (who lurks on this e-list) would consider re-running these. Dick Karnes ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
