williams madison 72' car trucks

Most of the Williams and Williams by Bachmann parts for the truck assemblies should be able to work with either one. Replace the whole truck assembly rather then repair it.

Your Williams Santa Fe Super Chief might be a few years old, like from the 1980's. 

As for cost to repair the truck assembly you may want to consider the prices before doing the repair, sometimes parts are expensive.

I bought another caboose one time rather then repair it as the costs for parts exceeded what I could buy a new one for. I kept the caboose for parts for another caboose or freight car that may need parts.

Lee Fritz

I've kind of given up trying to find replacement trucks for those Williams cars. Some day I may try to find some two axle passenger trucks to replace the originals, which may be more prototypical anyway, but I'm not much of a toy "mechanic" so it's going to be a ways down the road. 

Are you sure it was a Williams?

Because the problem sounds more like a K-Line truck issue then a Williams issue.

Lee Fritz

Williams also had the same problem, I replaced mine with Lionel trucks. I still have a few to upgrade.

Bill i was just getting ready to mention you and you beat me too it LOL.

I have noticed that some of the older Williams passenger cars used what looks like K-Line truck assemblies, like on the second run of the Crown Edition passenger cars, very similar to the K-Line Golden State car trucks.

I have bought two different sets of the same roadname passenger cars in the Crown Edition and the two sets have different coupler and truck assemblies, both were not bought at the same time.

Lee Fritz

Bill,

Many years ago I had to use the Lionel trucks, also. I was disappointed that the were not diecast(at least the ones I received). The Delrin trucks worked just as well.