Re: Type C/UP trucks

Posted by Michael York on May 06, 2021; 6:27pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Type-C-UP-trucks-tp15497p16608.html

I checked some of my current model files, and I would expect that a brass version in S scale would be approximately $80 per pair.  I'm not sure what modifications would be required on my end, but I know that their process is to print it in wax before it goes through the traditional investment casting process.

It would probably be easier (and cheaper) for me to design some sort of wiper supports so that you could add some phosphor bronze wire/strip pickups.  

I rather like the look of that mogul with mismatched trucks.  The 14t trucks are where they should be...under the lighter part of the tender!  Since one of those truck has 7t capacity, the tender would have weighted around 25t fully loaded, that leaves 18t for the Cooke truck to carry!   I'd be the loading was something more like 10t on the front and 15t on the rear truck.  One of the Oahu Railway 0-6-0s had elliptical springs in one truck and coil in the other, naturally, that's the one I want to model first!