New AtlasO 2 rail trucks

most answers can be found here. https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/7906207221679592

Thank you Michael!  I wish I wouldn't have missed those at the convention and if you wouldn't have been so busy behind the table at the entrance, I would have said, "Hi". 

By scale width you just mean the individual side frame?  To have the truck at scale width is impossible with our current gauge and tread profile.

Ultimately looks like thinner sideframes and a smaller distance between the outside of the wheel and the sideframe.    Based on what Michael shared and the pictures up on Atlas.

These trucks should be showing up on the new Coil cars currently being delivered,sideframes are much thinner,bolster assy and wheelset axels are also narrowed.

My only gripe with the Atlas trucks are the fat wheels they have on these things!  Plus, why did they choose nickel silver plated brass wheels over steel wheels / axles with the proper wheel profile?  Just my opinion here but I think steel wheels would look a heck of a lot better than nickel silver plating, even though the new trucks come somewhat pre-blackened.  I paint my existing Atlas cars trucks, and it greatly helps the look, but on my non Atlas cars, I use Jerry Snows' trucks as the scale profile wheels look much better.  I will be interest to see the new Atlas trucks in person, but from the pictures posted, the truck frames look too narrow........ Come on Atlas....if Jerry Snow could produce a scale roller bearing truck 15 years ago, certainly you can follow suit with todays' manufacturing processes.

I suspect this was the least expensive retooling of the existing truck for Atlas to address the too wide complaints. As I recall Jerry used to complain at the Chicago meets at the lack of demand for his Trucks despite there quality, I don't believe he still sells them.

Jerry probably still has all the tooling for sale for his trucks if someone want to get into the biz or just to make them for himself.  I believe he was asking $20K for the whole thing including all the unassembled letover parts.