Hi all: did some counting. I have 23 truck side frames and enough of the 2 inch wide "bolsters" to make nine pairs of trucks. There's close to enough wheels as well. By bolsters I mean the metal piece with 90 degree bends at bothg ends to fasten to the truck and a hole to screw into the passenger car swivel point. Pardon my lousy terminology. Bud has offered to send me a copy of the assembly instructions. There's a mess of small nuts, screws, springs and pieces of brass wire with a loop at one end. In the midst of all this were four locomotive truck side frames with wheels and the cross pieces and caps for the wheels. Anyone guess their origin?. They look like two axle GM trucks. Before I start assembling them, I gotta do a car count to see how many trucks I actually need. cheers
> To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:57:50 +0000 > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: metal passenger car trucks > > Hi Alex.... > > What you might have is the infamous LOIZEAUX PASSENGER TRUCK made way back in > the 1970s sometime. If there is a nut in the parts envelope, you should glue > the nut to the inside of the sideframe casting and then use the enclosed > screw to attach the bolster to the sideframe. If the screw is not tightened > too much, the sideframe will swivel and you will have full equalization. > Miller wheelsets were included with maroon plastic over the axles and, I > think, brass wheels. The springs are Kadee springs (O gauge?) and the brake > cylinder is an unauthorized copy of an HO tender brake cylinder. Ya gotta do > wha'cha gotta do back in the olde daze, y'know. Should be brass eyelets > included to be pressed into the sideframe hole. The white metal sideframes > are unauthorized copies of the Enhorning passenger trucks with some details > removed and other details added. Way back then, I sold over 400 pair of those > trucks. When assembled properly, they roll very nicely. They did come with > instructions at the time. Maybe someone else on the list has instructions. > Another piece of history surfaces..... > > Cheers...Ed Loizeaux > > > > > So going through my accumulated junque, I discover I have upwards of a > > dozen metal passenger car truck kits of unknown origin. So I'm hoping > > someone out there can help. They're two axle trucks, look > > modernish--there's some detail including brake cylinders on them. There's a > > cross piece (there appears to be two different sizes), some wheels with > > blunt ends , a whole bunch of small screws and springs and no instructions > > and no obvious to me way of joining the cross pieces to the wheel frames. > > Help. > > Cheers > > Alex Binkley > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
