Yes, the shorter GE sideframe (early GE locomotives were built by
Alco--colocated in Schenectady, of course--but from the 1920's on GE's were
built at Erie) is for smaller locomtives--essentially 40T or so--while the
longer is for larger products, such as Q-Car's own steeplecab (not available
for some years, as the owner has been too busy producing power trucks and
castings) which represents about a 50T prototype.
JGGK
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
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