Jace: You will need entire truck assemblies, as the AM trucks have a longer wheelbase. Scale sideframes only won't fix it.
Like I said: I'm beginning to think I'll live with the "modify and make do" approach. Either that, or I'll continue to do without. Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: JGG KahnSr To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 12:45 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} AAR Sideframes (was AM Repower Question The other option that occurs to me is the old Locomotive Workshop white-metal AAR sideframes, as in the set of switcher trucks Tom Lennon currently has listed on ebay. A pair also came with the second Miller Alco with Beveridge/Cascade drive I bought; I hoped to replace them with Railmaster Blunt sideframes, but on enquiry was told the molds for the truck sideframes also have castings for other parts of the kit and are not available separately (which would also apply to their AAR sideframes). I DID get a set of the Blunt sideframes from Dick Karnes who had them left over from another project, so I have been trying to fit those to the Cascade drive (some very minor dimensional problem that I have yet to figure out). Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > Has anyone tried converting the A-M S-12 to the prototypically correct > > AAR Type A switcher trucks instead? > > I believe it has been done, but you need an SHS product to get the trucks > off of. Right now, you can't buy just the trucks from SHS. Why, you ask? > Well, it's because Smokey Valley Jim BOUGHT THEM ALL. Yeah... the cad. > Didn't he know that some of us MIGHT think about using some of them for a > few years and PERHAPS could even get around to actually putting it on the > Definite Maybe list??? > > Seriously: I understand. I have thought about making some simple > modifications to lessen the visual impact of the current trucks. > > Andre Ming [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/
