6-wheel Buckeye trucks for Auxiliary tender

Coach, ….refresh my memory, is the locomotive & tender scale, or traditional sized?….if scale, I have oodles of 6 wheel buckeyes with coupler pockets ….

Pat

Pat the loco is a MTH Rail King Y6B and the auxiliary tender was made out of a Lionel Whistling tender that gave it's chassis and air whistle to a starter set 4-4-2.  I was searching eBay and Trainz for coupler arms but I would need a 3" length.

I think I'll also have to use some spacers between the trucks and the chassis so the Buckeyes clear the sides of the frame.

Coach, MTH has these in stock, they’d match your Railking engines, …Sadly, I don’t have any Railking trucks in stock at my shop, ….everything I have is scale, or I’d be more than happy to toss you a pair…..

Pat

Coach,
In my opinion, those trucks are way too big to be fitting under that frame. Once installed there will be nothing but trucks under there and no space between. I would suggest finding something shorter.

Try what Pat suggested.

Thanks for the help Pat.  I never thought to check MTH or Lionel for that matter.  I searched ebay just looking for some inexpensive 6 wheel trucks.  When I saw the Walthers for $23 for the pay and they were actually the same type of truck I was like "Okay.  I should be able to find a coupler"  Another quick project turning into a much bigger deal.

Big Jim, I was thinking the same thing once I took them out of the box.  I'm thinking I may just stick with the 4 wheel trucks that it's got.  I'm beginning to feel like this whole thing was just too ambitious.  I may just put the decals on it and be done with it.  I'm away for two weeks and will re-visit it when I get home.  Another project that I thought would be quick that I've turned into something I can't seem to complete the way I would like.  I think it's just about time to throw a loop of track on a table and watch trains run in circles the way they were made.