These Weaver cars often come up on auction sites without trucks. When I search for trucks they do not appear to be readily available. What do most folks do who purchase these? Thanks for ideas.
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MTh makes the die cast Wevaer trucks They are available though Mr Muffin or Beth at Public delivery track You will pay more for the trucks than most of those cars
Hmmm, that is what I was wondering about. I guess no one makes the standard old plastic trucks that many Weaver cars have. Thanks.
Whenever i'm at a train show i look to buy Atlas, Lionel, MTH, & Weaver trucks (with couplers) at something less than the current Fleabay offerings. I have a box of them that i use in just such instances. I happen to have a pair of Atlas roller bearing trucks with couplers that i just removed from a Weaver hopper - less than 1 hour usage from new - that i was about to photograph and put on the For Sale section within a day or two.
I have a bunch of the old Weaver plastic (Delrin) roller bearing trucks, axles, also wheels, metal and Delrin, 3 rail and 2 rail, not sure about couplers though. I can bring some with me to York.
Athearn O scale trucks (plastic wheels) were still available from Horizon Hobby, but only in Arch Bar and Bettendorf. The roller bearing ones are no longer listed. They'll take Intermountain metal wheelsets nicely.
Thanks for the ideas- I am finding out I don't know much about truck options!
Clem, that sounds great, I was thinking of some simple project cars. I will be at York on thursday and friday. I will send you an email on connection details.
Matt, I will check Horizon hobby and I need to learn more obviously about how the intermountain wheel sets work in this regard. Dumb question maybe, but do they fit into the plastic trucks to replace the plastic wheels?
Jackson, I like your idea of looking at train shows, I had no idea weaver cars could have atlas roller bearing trucks. Will look for your posting.
I personally would not use Atlas Trucks on a Weaver car. Due to the different styles of the bolster the car would sit abnormally high and IMO look terrible. Same thing goes for the regular MTH trucks. Athearn, Weaver, or the trucks MTH makes for Weaver cars are the best choice. Again just my opinion and my experience.
Sure miss that #7xx Weaver truck series. What three rail wheelsets fit Athearn archbars, although those plastic trucks don't thrill me.
I've just bought some Lionel metal sprung trucks on UK ebay for $13 a box of 2 (6-12843) you guys should be able to get them a lot cheaper in the states
James
A Weaver truck. I added the spacer for a Caboose kit that I'm working on. Spacer accounts for the coupler assembly not use. Most likely I'll add KD assemblies to these kits. Mullet River Kit progress
bluelinec4 posted:MTh makes the die cast Wevaer trucks They are available though Mr Muffin or Beth at Public delivery track You will pay more for the trucks than most of those cars
That's the unfortunate truth.
MTH remake of the Weaver trucks are $29.95/pair. Athearn trucks are $14 with plastic 2-rail wheels (on back order until, June at Horizon hobbies). To upgrade to Intermountain metal 2-rail wheelsets is another $10 from Scale City. The original Weaver plastic trucks with metal 3-rail wheels run $8-10 per pair at train shows. The metal ones run abou $15, but are getting really hard to find.
I avoid buying cars without trucks unless it is a must-have item. Sometimes you can pick up some oddball Weaver cars for $5-$10 and strip the trucks off them.
Bob
I have picked up trucks, use a lot of archbars, at Chicago March Meet, but this last was a dry desert.
