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Originally Posted by Mike W.:

The Moe and Joe trucks are metal...but I think thats the only time they have used the sliders.  For comparison the new Lobster Aquarium car uses the same truck with rollers.

Mike:

 

I just rechecked them to be sure and as I posted originally the trucks on my Moe & Joe car are definitely PLASTIC, not metal.  There is a metal plate running between the axles to which the sliding shoes are attached.  That plate is held on to the axles with bendable tabs in each corner just like on a post-war metal truck.  But the entire assembly except for that plate, the wheels, axles and the screw that attaches the truck to the body, are plastic.  The coupler arm is plastic and is attached to the plastic cross brace, not to that metal plate like on a post-war truck.

 

What other cars did they make with sliding shoes back in that period (2004) that might also have them?  It doesn't seem cost-effective to design a new truck to be used on just one car.  

 

Bill

That is interesting, and possibly the only use of that truck. I have always known that truck to be diecast.  But I have only seen it used on Cabooses, operating gondolas, any car that required diecast trucks...and rollers.  Not sure why they don't use the sprung trucks with rollers on these cars...but IMO that was never a robust setup.  

 

The other cars with sliders all used the PW bar end trucks...the reissue coal dump and barrel gondola...the rachet log dump and twin bin dump from the 2008 PWC Berkshire Set (my favorite...way better than the recent CC version).  

 

 

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