Warped floors due to zink pest can put your Weaver troop sleeper cars at risk

Hi Ed!

You can also check with Phil at forum sponsor JR Junction, as he is offering the Atlas replacement parts. 

See some details here: https://ogrforum.com/...51#72383129324278951

He posted this picture...

PS- stay tuned for some exciting news from Scale City  regarding the coupler project that you and I worked on...

thanks,

Mario

Thanks for the info Mario.  I called Phil at JR junction and he told me he was sold out of the replacement underframes.  He graciously was willing to reorder more underframes but since I only needed one I ordered directly from AtlasO.  At $35.55 (shipped) it was expensive.  If I didn't have as many queued up (and far more interesting projects) on my to do list I would have built a new wood underframe.  One positive was that it came in painted.

I look forward to Scale City's news about replacement coupler pockets.   Those grossly wide AtlasO coupler pockets really detract from their otherwise good looking freight cars.  

Keystoned Ed posted:

 Does anyone know if AtlasO's 2 rail troop sleeper car trucks use a narrower bolster than their 3 rail ones?  

Ed,

I have several Atlas troop express cars and they do have a more narrow bolster than the original Weaver bolster. Looks much better. However, I removed the trucks and replaced them with different style trucks on the Atlas New Haven troop baggage cars.

I'd appreciate it if someone with a troop sleeper would post a picture of the car's underframe setup.  I messed up   and didn't take a picture of the general arrangement of the brake rigging before removing the bent and broken floor.  A picture  would take the guesswork out of knowing where to install the old castings on the new underframe. 

Thanks

here's one for you Ed