Jace,
Omnicon's first two engines had similar but different sets of trucks
although both were leaf spring archbars. Extra trucks were available at
one time, but good luck finding any.
A few years ago some of the Houston S Gaugers put together a field trip
to visit/photograph all the stuffed engines we could find in East
Texas. We found one that had two different style trucks, so mix and
match isn't just for bikinis!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 6/28/13 7:43 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote:
Some months ago I finally bought one of the Omnicon MP 2-8-0's. It was
generally in pretty good
shape but someone had replaced the archbar leaf-spring tender trucks
with Andrews, which from
such research as I've done are quite incorrect. None of my obvious
ideas for finding any have panned
out. Does anyone have an extra set they'd be willing to part with?
Archbar leaf spring trucks seem to be quite rare in S scale: other
than these, the only others I could
find were under the BTS 0-6-0 tenders--and Bill Wade wrote he had none
to spare.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
