Use larger diameter wheels and the truck frame will look smaller.
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Borgmeyer
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:02 AM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: A-M GP-35
Vintage Alco trucks tend to be a General Steel Castings 4 wheel swing bolster
truck with a 9'4" wheelbase. EMD GP's tend to use their own EMD swing hanger
freight truck (sometimes called a Blomberg truck) which is a similar style B
truck but has a 9' wheelbase.
The story around these parts goes Ron was developing an Alco diesel first
therefore he tooled the GSC version of the truck. Yes, the trucks are not
exactly right (in several ways) for GP's. To address your question, the
wheelbase is 4 scale inches too long. A 1/16" in S scale.
Chris Borgmeyer
--- In [email protected], "David Engle" <rirocket@...> wrote:
>
> Someone told me years back that the A-M GP-35 has a truck center distance
shorter than prototype so they could use the same frame as for the GP-9.
Anything to this?
>
> DJE
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