Someone needs to check whether or not Baldwin and Fairbanks-Morse used a truck that was a foot longer wheelbase than the corresponding EMD/Alco truck. The reason is that Westinghouse traction motors were used instead of GE. I think this applies only to the B road truck but not the A switcher truck, but I could be incorrect. DJE
----- Original Message ----- From: JGG KahnSr To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 10:09 PM Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} AAR Sideframes (was AM Repower Question 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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/
