Last weekend I spent some time adapting brass trucks to SHS USRA Re-built box cars. I originally decided not to post about it amid the blabber fest on adult content and non-model or railroad related topics, but a friend prevailed on me to send it on...
The original project was to build three of the NYC's M&E box cars. The railroad converted 10 USRA re-builds for this purpose, Lot 679-B in 1940, road numbers 100990 - 100999. The NYCSHS can provide a photo for a nominal fee. After some minor detail changes to the SHS cars, it was to the paint shop for Pullman Green and CDS dry transfers. I attached a link to the model photo I posted a long time ago still with the SHS trucks. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1226119013/pic/1377107667/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc The NYC cars had Symington high speed trucks for passenger and M&E train service. There are no exact copies in S scale but the Symington-Wayne trucks furnished on the Pfaudler GPEX Milk Tank Cars (brass model from 1990) are very, very close. Only problem is brass trucks do not mate easily with SHS (or other) plastic cars. I began by cutting off the narrow part of the car's bolster post. I then took the small square spacer plate SHS provides, turned it 90 degrees with the four points facing down (toward the track). Using an "old fashion" 3/8" drill reamer, I spun it with my fingers to widen the hole on the underside of the space plate while not opening the hole on top. This allows the spacer to lay over the slightly raised brass bolster plate cast into the truck bolster while retaining a tighter fit on the cars raised mounting bolster boss. The result is a model that has the correct coupler height, negligible side to side truck movement and stands absolutely vertical when placed on the track. It takes about 30 minutes a car. So went last Saturday night... Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
