Of course (dope slap!): the AM S-12 uses type B road trucks, which are longer
wheelbase than switcher trucks.
No easy solution...
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> 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
> 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
> > > 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
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