Re: Type C/UP trucks

Posted by Jim Courtney on May 05, 2021; 8:27pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Type-C-UP-trucks-tp15497p16607.html

Wow, great news, Michael's back!!

(See Michael's post at the end of the prior page.)

When you stopped posting last year, I was afraid you'd given up on this project.  Or worse, maybe COVID had gotten you.

Sorry to hear about the divorce -- been there, done that, not fun.

The U.P. type C truck drawings look fabulous. Just need to pull the brake shoes in a bit. I'd say you're ready for a test print soon. I will be happy to be the Sn3 beta-tester. Just let me know when to buy a couple of prints to try out. In the long run I'm gonna need about 18-20 pair. I (and most Sn3 folks) will be using PBL's 26" wheelsets, specs were posted on the first page of this thread.

And please don't forget a test print of the Litchfield 12 ton trucks in Sn3, I'm gonna need a bunch of those, too.

One last question, Is it possible to print the trucks in brass as well??

I found another use for the type-C trucks:


In Margaret Coel's Goin' Railroading.


This is engineer "Jumbo" Miller's C&S locomotive number 4 about 1908-1909, being serviced in Como after arriving from Leadville with the passenger train. Note that the front tender truck is a UP 14 ton truck, while the rear truck is a standard Cooke truck. A print in brass would certainly help with electrical pick-up, assuming Shapeways brass conducts electricity . . .