… and if so, are you willing to part with the 3-rail trucks? I’m looking for 2 pair to use under Labelle cars that I plan to model as PRR PK coaches. Thanks for looking.
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Yes. But the trucks are the only thing one needs to convert, and they are beautiful. Probably best to buy a pair from MTH.
I just stuck intermountain (I think) wheelsets in the supplied trucks, wired them for 2 rail, removed the tinplate coupler and used the kadee insert supplied wiht the car. Piece of cake, easy conversin in just a few minutes.
J2M
Thanks for the replies, but perhaps my initial posting was a little unclear. I'm actually looking for 3-rail trucks, and thought that one of you 2-railers might have a few pair laying around from a 3- to 2-rail conversion. I'm sure I can get them from the MTH parts dept., but since I've not always had the best luck with them, I thought I'd try here first. I figured we all like to get a few $$ for the stuff layout around below our layouts!
Sorry 49Lionel, I always just toss out the 3 rail couplers and wheelets. I used to keep them but people hardly ever move from 2 rail to 3 rail.
J2M
49Lionel: send me an email jag-at-oscalemag.com. I have two pair I can part with.
Take Joe up on this before one of us do. These are the best trucks in their class available for 2-rail scale. Putting wheelsets in them is trivial. You cannot buy equivalent 2- rail trucks, unless MTH is making them available.
I sure did take Joe up on his offer. Thanks to Joe, and to the others who posted!
I just checked Joe's link. Sure enough, for an extra almost twenty five bucks you can get 2-rail versions of these beauties.
That is not much more than a set of steel NWSL wheelsets would cost, I guess, but still right on up there. One caution: the MTH scale wheels were not steel, last time I checked.
As far as I can tell, the only other truck for this sort of model is PSC (sprung, brass) or All Nation (one piece, bronze or lead or maybe aluminum). The entire car is under a hundred bucks, and really quite a handsome model. Wish I could justify a long string of these, behind my stalled D16 project.
Originally Posted by bob2:
I just checked Joe's link. Sure enough, for an extra almost twenty five bucks you can get 2-rail versions of these beauties.
That is not much more than a set of steel NWSL wheelsets would cost, I guess, but still right on up there. One caution: the MTH scale wheels were not steel, last time I checked.
As far as I can tell, the only other truck for this sort of model is PSC (sprung, brass) or All Nation (one piece, bronze or lead or maybe aluminum). The entire car is under a hundred bucks, and really quite a handsome model. Wish I could justify a long string of these, behind my stalled D16 project.
I notice that we seem to have intersecting interests, as you posted to my "Please, somebody make a D16sb" thread a while back. As nice as the MTH cars are, they're a little too big to be 1900-era PRR wooden equipment, which if I'm not mistaken was more like 58' to 60'. Labelle has kits based on Soo and C, M, & St. P. prototypes that should be just about right. Never built a car kit before, but I'm just crazy enough to try! I'll send photos, if you do the same for your D16.
I did a D16sb for Frank Thomson of Philadelphia. I will have to scan the photo, since it was before the days of digital cameras. Maurer auctioned it when Frank died, so it should be floating around the east coast somewhere. The new one got as far as main frame and boiler, and I went off on another tangent. I promise you will see it some day in the pages of OST. It will be designed for beginners, and will use components that should still be available.
I love the MTH coaches, and they match my La Belle cars almost exactly. Just pull them with a B6 or an H10, and be patient. If I don't get to it, maybe MTH will decide to go full scale on one.
